Soybean variety 01106393

Leandro Mozzoni, Lincoln, NE (US)

USPTO: us-12622401 · published 2026-05-12 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean variety 01106393

Leandro Mozzoni, Lincoln, NE (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-17 02:01 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10

keywords soybeanvarietyseed depositplant patentGlycine maxNCMA accession

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A new soybean variety called 01106393 is defined by seeds deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510069.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The patent establishes a specific soybean plant whose identity is fixed by a public deposit of representative seeds. This deposit serves as the reference point that allows anyone to reproduce the exact variety. A sympathetic reader would care because the claim creates a legal and biological standard for this plant that can be used in breeding, farming, and further research. The variety is presented as distinct and stable enough to be reliably grown from the deposited material.

Core claim

The paper claims a plant of soybean variety 01106393, with representative seed deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510069, thereby establishing the variety through that physical deposit rather than through a written description alone.

What carries the argument

The seed deposit under NCMA Accession No. 202510069, which fixes the genetic identity of the variety and enables its reproduction.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds are genetically stable, uniform, and distinct enough from existing varieties to allow reliable reproduction of the claimed plant.

What would settle it

A genetic test or grow-out showing that plants grown from the deposited seeds are not uniform or differ from the claimed variety description.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean variety 01106393, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510069.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This is a routine U.S. plant patent that protects one new soybean variety solely through a seed deposit, with no trait data or breeding details supplied.

read the letter

The document registers soybean variety 01106393 under NCMA accession 202510069. That accession number and the legal claim attached to it are the only new elements. Everything else follows the standard format for a plant patent: a single claim that the deposited seed defines the variety and can be used to reproduce it. No morphological descriptors, yield data, disease resistance scores, or marker profiles appear anywhere in the text. The filing therefore adds one more protected germplasm entry to the commercial catalog but does not supply evidence that would let an outsider judge how distinct or stable the line actually is. Breeders who already work with the assignee or who want to license the variety may find the accession number useful for ordering seed. For anyone else the filing is essentially a legal notice rather than a source of agronomic information. Because the text contains no measurements, no statistical comparisons, and no discussion of prior art beyond the deposit itself, it does not meet the standards expected of a research article. A journal editor should desk-reject it without sending it to referees; the proper channel for this material is the patent office, not peer review.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript asserts a single claim to a plant of soybean variety 01106393 whose representative seed has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510069.

Significance. A properly enabled and novel soybean variety could have commercial and agronomic value, but the absence of any trait data, marker profiles, or breeding history prevents assessment of whether the deposit actually defines a distinct, uniform, and stable variety.

major comments (1)

Claim 1: the enablement of the variety rests entirely on the NCMA deposit, yet no morphological descriptors, agronomic performance data, or genetic marker profiles are supplied to demonstrate that seed from the deposit will reliably reproduce a distinct and uniform variety across generations.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's comments on our patent application. The single claim is directed to a novel soybean variety enabled by a public deposit of representative seed, consistent with USPTO practice for plant variety claims under 35 U.S.C. § 112.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: Claim 1: the enablement of the variety rests entirely on the NCMA deposit, yet no morphological descriptors, agronomic performance data, or genetic marker profiles are supplied to demonstrate that seed from the deposit will reliably reproduce a distinct and uniform variety across generations.

Authors: Under established U.S. patent practice for deposited plant varieties, the deposit itself constitutes enabling disclosure. The deposited seed (NCMA Accession No. 202510069) is publicly available and, by definition, represents the stable, uniform, and distinct variety 01106393. Any plant grown from that seed, or progeny derived therefrom while maintaining the essential characteristics, falls within the claim. Additional morphological or marker data are not required in the specification when a viable deposit has been made and referenced, as the deposit provides the necessary possession and reproducibility. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No circularity; single claim defined by external physical deposit

full rationale

The document contains only one claim that directly references an external NCMA seed deposit as the definition of the variety. There are no equations, derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, ansatzes, or self-citations present. The claim does not reduce any result to its own inputs by construction; it simply asserts the variety via the deposit. This is the most common honest non-finding for non-mathematical documents.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No mathematical or empirical derivation is present; the document is a legal instrument asserting existence of a deposited plant line.

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A plant of soybean variety 01106393, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510069.

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