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US Plant Patent PP17544

Ingwweye

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingwweye’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 20, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 8, 2025. This patent earned 134 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17544, the photograph of Ingwweye printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17544, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17544
Filed
September 8, 2005
Granted
April 3, 2007
Expires
January 20, 2026
Inventor
SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingwweye’ characterized by its large white flowers with red-purple stripe in the middle of the petal, early flowering, dark foliage, ball shaped growth habit with excellent basal branching and good outdoor vigor.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingwweye’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17544 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.