Plants and seeds of corn variety CV993411

Bradley A. Sockness, Detroit Lakes, MN (US); Carlos Roman, Tlajomulco de Zuniga (MX); Jon Popi, London (CA)

USPTO: us-12628771 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/4684· A01H 1/00· A01H 5/10

Plants and seeds of corn variety CV993411

Jon Popi, London (CA) , Carlos Roman, Tlajomulco de Zuniga (MX) , Bradley A. Sockness, Detroit Lakes, MN (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 10:00 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4684A01H 1/00A01H 5/10

keywords corn varietyCV993411seed depositplant patentNCMA accession

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The pith

A corn plant of variety CV993411 exists and is defined by seeds deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306053.

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

The document claims a specific corn variety named CV993411 as a distinct and reproducible plant type. It supports the claim by placing representative seeds in a recognized public collection. A reader cares because the deposit creates a legal and practical reference point for the variety. If the claim holds, the variety becomes available for controlled propagation and commercial use while meeting the requirements for intellectual property protection in plants.

Core claim

Plants of corn variety CV993411 exist as a stable and uniform type, with representative seeds deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306053 serving as the definitive reference material for the variety.

What carries the argument

The seed deposit under NCMA Accession No. 202306053, which fixes the identity of the variety for all future reference and propagation.

If this is right

The variety can be propagated reliably from the deposited seeds.
The deposit satisfies the legal requirement for a public reference under plant variety protection rules.
Growers and breeders gain access to a defined starting material for this corn type.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Breeders could test the variety against other commercial corn lines to identify any performance advantages in yield or stress tolerance.
The accession number provides a permanent public anchor that later genomic studies could use to map the genetic basis of the variety's traits.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds will grow into plants that remain stable, distinct from other varieties, and uniform across generations.

What would settle it

Grow out multiple generations from the deposited seeds and check whether the resulting plants consistently match any listed distinguishing traits or fail to differ from existing corn varieties.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of corn variety CV993411, wherein representative seeds of corn variety CV993411 have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306053.

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 standard US plant patent that registers corn variety CV993411 solely by seed deposit with no data or description supplied.

read the letter

The filing claims a plant of corn variety CV993411 whose seeds are deposited at NCMA under accession 202306053. That is the entire substantive content. No phenotypic traits, yield data, molecular markers, breeding history, or comparisons to existing lines appear anywhere in the document. The deposit itself is the legal hook for plant variety protection, and the filing meets the minimal formal requirements for that purpose. Nothing more is asserted or shown. For anyone working on corn breeding or germplasm, the deposit creates a public reference point that can be requested and tested later. That is the only concrete output. Everything else—distinctness, uniformity, stability—rests on the unexamined assumption that the deposited seed lot truly represents a stable new variety. Without any supporting observations or methods, there is no way to assess that claim from the text. The document is therefore of interest only to parties who need to track or license this specific protected line. It contains no experimental results, no methods that could be reproduced, and no engagement with prior art beyond the legal deposit. It does not belong in a scientific reading group, will not be cited in research papers, and should not be sent for peer review. If the goal is simply to log the existence of the accession for IP tracking, the filing is complete on its own terms; otherwise it offers nothing to evaluate.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript asserts the existence of corn variety CV993411 and claims rights to its plants and seeds, with the sole supporting evidence being a public deposit of representative seeds under NCMA Accession No. 202306053.

Significance. If the deposited material truly constitutes a stable, distinct, and uniform variety meeting statutory criteria, the work would establish legal protection for a new corn line; however, the manuscript supplies no phenotypic, genotypic, agronomic, or comparative data that would allow independent evaluation of novelty or utility.

major comments (1)

The single claim (and the full text) rests exclusively on the physical deposit without any description of breeding history, morphological traits, molecular markers, or performance data that would substantiate distinctness, uniformity, and stability. This absence directly undermines the central legal and scientific assertion of a protectable variety.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the review. This document is a US patent application claiming a novel corn variety; under applicable patent statutes the public seed deposit constitutes the enabling disclosure and satisfies the requirements for defining a protectable variety. We address the single major comment below.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: The single claim (and the full text) rests exclusively on the physical deposit without any description of breeding history, morphological traits, molecular markers, or performance data that would substantiate distinctness, uniformity, and stability. This absence directly undermines the central legal and scientific assertion of a protectable variety.

Authors: In a US utility patent application directed to a plant variety, 35 U.S.C. § 112 enablement is satisfied by a publicly accessible deposit of representative seeds (see USPTO guidance on biological deposits). The claim explicitly references NCMA Accession No. 202306053, which makes the variety available to the public and permits independent verification of its traits, uniformity, and stability. Detailed phenotypic or genotypic data are not required in the specification when the deposit itself serves as the written description; such data may be generated post-grant if needed for enforcement or comparison. We therefore maintain that the deposit alone meets the statutory criteria for patentability. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The document is a standard US plant patent whose sole claim asserts the existence of corn variety CV993411 supported by a public seed deposit (NCMA 202306053). No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citations appear; the claim is not constructed from any internal inputs and rests directly on the physical deposit and legal criteria for variety protection. This is the most common honest non-finding for such filings.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

No mathematical or scientific derivations are present. The filing relies on the legal convention that a seed deposit suffices to define and enable the variety.

axioms (1)

domain assumption A deposited seed sample adequately defines a distinct plant variety for intellectual-property purposes.
Standard assumption in plant variety protection statutes invoked by the filing.

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A plant of corn variety CV993411, wherein representative seeds of corn variety CV993411 have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306053.

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