Wheat cultivar 01102476

Christopher Moore, Tamsworth (AU)

USPTO: us-12635639 · published 2026-05-26 · patents · A01H 6/4678· A01H 5/10

Wheat cultivar 01102476

Christopher Moore, Tamsworth (AU) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-28 07:31 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4678A01H 5/10

keywords wheat cultivarplant variety protectionseed depositNCMA accessioncultivar 01102476

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The pith

The patent asserts a wheat plant of cultivar 01102476 whose seeds are preserved under NCMA accession 202312008.

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

The document claims legal recognition for one specific wheat cultivar by naming it 01102476 and citing a public seed deposit. The single sentence of the filing equates the living plant with that deposited sample. A sympathetic reader would see this as the minimal step required to secure plant-variety rights over the named line.

Core claim

A plant of wheat cultivar 01102476 exists and is represented by the seed sample deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202312008.

What carries the argument

Seed deposit under a named accession number that stands in for the living cultivar.

If this is right

The named cultivar can be referenced in future breeding, licensing, or infringement actions by its accession number.
Any plant grown from the deposited seed inherits the legal status asserted in the filing.
Subsequent varieties derived from 01102476 can be distinguished by reference to this baseline deposit.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The filing treats the accession number as sufficient evidence of novelty without supplying comparative data in the visible text.
If the deposit remains viable, researchers could request samples to test performance against other wheat lines under controlled conditions.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds produce plants that are distinct, uniform, and stable enough to qualify as a protectable cultivar.

What would settle it

Growth tests showing that plants grown from the deposited seeds fail to match the morphological or agronomic description required for the cultivar.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of wheat cultivar 01102476, wherein a sample of seed of said cultivar has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202312008.

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 plant-variety patent claim that rests on a single seed deposit and contains no scientific data, methods, or results to evaluate.

read the letter

The document is a US plant patent for wheat cultivar 01102476. Its single claim simply identifies the cultivar by name and references NCMA Accession No. 202312008. That is the entire technical content. No pedigree, molecular markers, agronomic data, or comparison to existing lines appears anywhere in the text. The filing therefore adds nothing that a reader can test or replicate beyond the existence of the deposited seed itself. Patents of this type are standard legal instruments for securing commercial rights once distinctness, uniformity, and stability have been accepted by the examiner; they are not research outputs. The accession number supplies the necessary physical reference, which is the accepted practice for plant-variety protection, so the document is internally consistent on its own narrow terms. Its limitation is obvious: anyone wanting evidence that the cultivar actually differs from prior lines must go outside the document to the deposit or to separate DUS trial records. There is no derivation, model, or statistical claim that could be circular or under-powered, because none is offered. The work is therefore of interest only to plant breeders, seed companies, or IP counsel tracking variety rights. It has no place in a scientific reading group and supplies no citable result for research papers. A scientific journal should desk-reject it without review; it is not a research manuscript.

Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript consists solely of one legal claim: a plant of wheat cultivar 01102476 whose seed has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202312008.

Significance. The document asserts a plant-variety right rather than reporting empirical, genetic, or agronomic results. No data on distinctness, uniformity, stability, yield, disease resistance, or molecular markers are supplied, so the work does not advance scientific understanding of wheat genetics or breeding.

major comments (1)

The sole claim (the only numbered paragraph) rests on the legal validity of the NCMA deposit but supplies none of the DUS evidence, pedigree, or marker data normally required to substantiate a new cultivar. This absence renders the central assertion unevaluable from the text itself.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the comments. The submission is a U.S. patent claim (not a scientific manuscript) whose sole purpose is to establish public notice of the deposited cultivar under 35 U.S.C. § 112. Scientific data such as DUS trials or marker profiles are neither required nor appropriate in the claim text itself; they reside in the deposit and the patent-examination record.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: The sole claim (the only numbered paragraph) rests on the legal validity of the NCMA deposit but supplies none of the DUS evidence, pedigree, or marker data normally required to substantiate a new cultivar. This absence renders the central assertion unevaluable from the text itself.

Authors: The document is a single independent claim in a utility patent application. Patent claims are legal instruments; they do not contain experimental data. Distinctness, uniformity, stability, and enablement are satisfied by the seed deposit under 37 C.F.R. § 1.801–1.809 together with the cultivar description filed with the USPTO. No revision to the claim language is possible or necessary. revision: no

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity: legal deposit claim only

full rationale

The document consists solely of a single legal claim that identifies the cultivar by reference to a deposited seed sample (NCMA Accession No. 202312008). No equations, parameters, predictions, derivations, or self-citations appear; therefore no step can reduce to its own inputs by construction. The circularity axis is inapplicable.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No mathematical or empirical derivation is present; the filing rests on the legal definition of a plant cultivar and the act of seed deposit.

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Wheat cultivar 01102476

Core claim

What carries the argument

If this is right

Where Pith is reading between the lines

Load-bearing premise

What would settle it

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