Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010479
Pith reviewed 2026-05-16 23:01 UTC · model grok-4.3
The pith
A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010479 is produced by crossing plants of deposited inbred lines CV622763 and CV479969.
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Core claim
The central claim is that seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010479 are produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV622763 with a second plant of variety CV479969, with representative seeds of the two parent varieties deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306061 and NCMA Accession No. 202106017 respectively.
What carries the argument
Hybrid seed production by controlled crossing of the two deposited inbred parent lines.
If this is right
- The hybrid can be reproduced at any time by repeating the cross between the two deposited lines.
- Commercial seed production of CH010479 becomes possible using the deposited parents as the consistent source.
- Growers obtain a defined corn variety whose parentage is fixed by the public deposits.
Where Pith is reading between the lines
- Other breeders could use the same deposited lines to generate new hybrids that incorporate traits from CH010479.
- The accession numbers create a permanent reference point for verifying identity in future disputes or research.
- Maintenance of the variety depends on continued viability of the two specific seed deposits.
Load-bearing premise
The deposited seeds of CV622763 and CV479969 remain viable and genetically stable enough to produce the claimed hybrid when crossed under ordinary conditions.
What would settle it
Grow plants from the two deposited accessions, cross them, and check whether the resulting seed matches the morphological and agronomic description of CH010479.
read the original abstract
1 . A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010479, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV622763 with a second plant of variety CV479969, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV622763 and CV479969 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306061 and NCMA Accession No. 202106017, respectively.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The manuscript presents a single claim defining hybrid corn variety CH010479 as the seed produced by crossing plant variety CV622763 with variety CV479969, with representative seeds of the parents deposited under NCMA Accession Nos. 202306061 and 202106017, respectively.
Significance. If the deposits prove viable and the cross reliably yields a distinct hybrid, the claim would establish legal protection for a new corn variety; however, the complete absence of phenotypic, genotypic, or agronomic data means the manuscript contributes no verifiable scientific result or performance information.
major comments (1)
- [Claim 1] Claim 1 (the sole claim): the definition of CH010479 rests entirely on parentage and accession numbers, with no morphological descriptors, yield data, marker profiles, or uniformity/stability evidence supplied to substantiate that the hybrid is distinct, uniform, or stable.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for reviewing the submission. This document is a US utility patent claim for a hybrid corn variety; its legal sufficiency rests on the specific parental cross together with viable deposits of the inbred parents, consistent with USPTO practice for such inventions. We address the single major comment below.
read point-by-point responses
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Referee: Claim 1 (the sole claim): the definition of CH010479 rests entirely on parentage and accession numbers, with no morphological descriptors, yield data, marker profiles, or uniformity/stability evidence supplied to substantiate that the hybrid is distinct, uniform, or stable.
Authors: Under 35 U.S.C. § 112 and USPTO guidelines for plant-related utility patents, a hybrid variety claim is enabled and definite when it recites the exact parental cross and identifies deposited, viable seeds of each inbred parent. The deposits (NCMA Accession Nos. 202306061 and 202106017) serve as the physical, reproducible reference that establishes the identity, uniformity, and stability of the hybrid seed produced by the cross. Phenotypic or genotypic data are not required to be recited in the claim language itself; they may be provided in the specification or during prosecution if needed to demonstrate enablement, but their absence from the claim does not render the claim invalid. revision: no
Circularity Check
No significant circularity; purely definitional claim
full rationale
The document is a plant-variety patent whose sole claim defines the hybrid seed CH010479 strictly by parentage (crossing CV622763 × CV479969) together with the two NCMA accession numbers. No equations, derivations, performance predictions, fitted parameters, or self-citations appear anywhere in the text. The claim is therefore a legal definition rather than a derived result that could reduce to its own inputs by construction.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
axioms (1)
- domain assumption Deposited seeds of CV622763 and CV479969 are viable and genetically stable representatives of the named varieties.
discussion (0)
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