Plants and seeds of corn variety CV622763

Mark J. Brinkman, Omaha, NE (US); Nathaniel J. Page, Madison, WI (US); Scott A. Bergemann, Northfield, MN (US); Todd E. Frank, Olivia, MN (US); Wade E. Odland, St. Charles, MO (US); Zachary King, Northfield, MN (US)

USPTO: us-12628773 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/4684· A01H 5/10

Plants and seeds of corn variety CV622763

Scott A. Bergemann, Northfield, MN (US) , Mark J. Brinkman, Omaha, NE (US) , Todd E. Frank, Olivia, MN (US) , Zachary King, Northfield, MN (US) , Wade E. Odland, St. Charles, MO (US) , Nathaniel J. Page, Madison, WI (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 11:00 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4684A01H 5/10

keywords corn varietyplant patentseed depositCV622763NCMA accession

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The pith

A corn plant of variety CV622763 is defined by its deposited seeds.

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

The document establishes legal protection for a specific corn variety by describing a plant whose seeds have been deposited in a public repository. This deposit serves as the reference point that allows others to reproduce the exact variety. A reader would care because the claim creates enforceable rights to control use and breeding of that corn line.

Core claim

The paper claims a plant of corn variety CV622763, with representative seeds deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306061, thereby defining the variety through the physical deposit.

What carries the argument

The seed deposit under NCMA Accession No. 202306061, which fixes the identity of the variety for legal and propagation purposes.

If this is right

Breeders can reference the accession number to obtain starting material for further crosses under license.
The variety can be maintained and sold only by parties authorized through the deposit holder.
Commercial seed production of CV622763 must trace back to the deposited line to satisfy the claim.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Farmers or researchers seeking to test performance would request seed directly from the accession holder rather than attempting independent recreation.
The deposit creates a fixed reference that later disputes over variety identity can be resolved against.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds must remain stable, distinct, and uniform enough to represent a single protected variety over time.

What would settle it

Growing out multiple generations from the deposited seeds and finding that key traits vary beyond the limits allowed for variety protection.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of corn variety CV622763, wherein representative seeds of corn variety CV622763 have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306061.

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 plant-variety protection filing that registers corn line CV622763 via seed deposit but supplies no agronomic data or comparative evidence.

read the letter

The core fact is straightforward: the document secures legal protection for a named corn variety through a public seed deposit at NCMA under accession 202306061. That deposit satisfies the formal requirement for plant variety protection, and the filing itself is internally consistent as a legal instrument. Breeders or seed companies can now reference the accession if they need access or want to license the line. Beyond that single administrative step, nothing else is shown. No yield trials, disease ratings, maturity data, or molecular fingerprints appear to demonstrate distinctness from prior art. The text follows the usual template for these filings, with the central claim resting entirely on the deposit rather than on measurements or derivations presented here. That is not a flaw in the legal sense, but it does limit what a reader can conclude about performance or novelty. Anyone tracking commercial germplasm releases or building a patent landscape in maize would find the accession number and inventor list useful for citation or follow-up. For a reading group or scientific discussion, the document offers little to work with because it contains no results to evaluate or debate. I would not send it for peer review; it is a registration filing, not research, and deserves handling through the appropriate IP or variety-registration channels instead.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims a corn plant of variety CV622763, defined solely by the deposit of representative seeds under NCMA Accession No. 202306061 (claim 1 and abstract). No morphological descriptors, genetic markers, performance data, or comparative trials are presented.

Significance. If the deposited material proves to be distinct, uniform, and stable, the accession could serve as a legal and breeding resource; however, the absence of any supporting measurements or methods in the text limits its immediate scientific utility.

major comments (1)

Abstract/claim 1: the central assertion that CV622763 constitutes a protectable variety rests exclusively on the legal act of deposit; no phenotypic, genotypic, or agronomic data are supplied to demonstrate distinctness, uniformity, or stability, rendering the claim unverifiable from the manuscript itself.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for reviewing the manuscript. This document is a U.S. patent application for a plant variety, which follows statutory requirements under 35 U.S.C. § 112 and USPTO practice for defining a variety via seed deposit rather than exhaustive phenotypic data in the specification.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: Abstract/claim 1: the central assertion that CV622763 constitutes a protectable variety rests exclusively on the legal act of deposit; no phenotypic, genotypic, or agronomic data are supplied to demonstrate distinctness, uniformity, or stability, rendering the claim unverifiable from the manuscript itself.

Authors: In a plant patent or plant variety protection application, the deposited seeds under NCMA Accession No. 202306061 serve as the definitive, enabling disclosure of the variety. Distinctness, uniformity, and stability are evaluated by the examining authority (USPTO or PVPO) through the deposited material and any required comparative trials submitted during prosecution, not by including morphological descriptors or performance tables in the published patent text itself. The single claim is therefore complete and enforceable as drafted. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The document is a plant-variety patent whose sole load-bearing claim is the legal identification of variety CV622763 by reference to an external public deposit (NCMA 202306061). No derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, self-citations, or ansatzes appear; the assertion is therefore self-contained against the external benchmark of the deposited seeds and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No mathematical axioms or free parameters are present. The document relies on the legal and biological assumption that the deposited material constitutes a protectable new variety.

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A plant of corn variety CV622763, wherein representative seeds of corn variety CV622763 have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306061.

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