Soybean cultivar 21040068

William H. Eby, Panora, IA (US)

USPTO: us-12628785 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean cultivar 21040068

William H. Eby, Panora, IA (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 17:01 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10

keywords cultivarsoybeanaccessionbeendepositedhavingncmaplant

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Patent claims a distinct soybean cultivar 21040068 with deposited representative seed under NCMA Accession No. 202409040.

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

The document is a U.S. patent application that defines a new soybean variety by its name and by the physical deposit of its seeds in a recognized repository. In plant breeding, such deposits serve as the legal reference that allows others to obtain and grow the exact same line. The filing therefore establishes ownership rights over this particular genetic combination rather than reporting experimental measurements or new mechanisms.

Core claim

A plant of soybean cultivar 21040068, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202409040.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seed lot is genetically stable, uniform, and distinct from all previously known soybean cultivars, satisfying the legal requirements for plant variety protection.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean cultivar 21040068, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202409040.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This is a standard U.S. plant patent filing that registers soybean cultivar 21040068 by seed deposit; it contains no data or analysis.

read the letter

The filing asserts a new soybean line, 21040068, via deposit under NCMA Accession No. 202409040. That is the entire contribution. No phenotypic, yield, or molecular data appear in the text, so any claim of distinctness or stability rests entirely on the deposited seed and whatever variety description was filed separately with the USPTO. The work follows the usual legal template for plant patents and does exactly what such documents are meant to do: secure intellectual property for the breeder. Its limitation is obvious once you treat it as a scientific document rather than a legal one. There are no experiments, no comparisons to existing cultivars, and no methods section, which makes it impossible to judge agronomic value from the filing alone. For a plant breeder or seed company lawyer this record is useful as a priority date and ownership marker. For anyone looking for reproducible results or new biological insight it offers nothing. I would not bring it to a reading group, would not cite it in research, and would not send it to scientific peer review. It belongs in the patent office, not a journal.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; claim reduces to verifiable deposit

full rationale

The document is a U.S. plant patent whose sole claim is the administrative fact of seed deposit under a named accession number. No equations, fitted parameters, derivations, or self-citations exist. Distinctness, uniformity and stability are established externally by the deposited material itself rather than by any internal logical reduction. This is the normal, non-circular case for a variety-protection filing.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The patent rests on the legal axiom that a seed deposit sufficiently defines and enables a plant variety. No free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented physical entities are present.

axioms (1)

domain assumption A deposited seed sample constitutes enabling disclosure and legal definition of a stable, distinct soybean cultivar.
Standard requirement under U.S. plant patent and utility patent statutes for asexually or sexually reproduced plants.

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A plant of soybean cultivar 21040068, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202409040.

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