Soybean variety 01098358

David R. Wooten, Jr., Middletown, DE (US); Philip A. Owen, Baldwin, IL (US)

USPTO: us-12622400 · published 2026-05-12 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean variety 01098358

Philip A. Owen, Baldwin, IL (US) , David R. Wooten, Jr., Middletown, DE (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-17 01:31 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10

keywords soybean varietyplant patentseed deposit01098358agriculture

0 comments

The pith

A soybean plant of variety 01098358 is defined by seeds deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510078.

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 soybean variety designated 01098358. Representative seeds of this variety have been placed in a recognized depository under the stated accession number. The filing thereby secures exclusive rights to the line for breeding and commercial use. A reader would care because the deposit makes the exact genetic material available for verification and propagation under legal protection.

Core claim

The paper asserts a plant of soybean variety 01098358 whose identity is fixed by the deposit of representative seed under NCMA Accession No. 202510078.

What carries the argument

The deposited seed sample that fixes the genetic identity of variety 01098358.

Load-bearing premise

The soybean line meets statutory requirements for distinctness, uniformity, and stability.

What would settle it

Growing out plants from the deposited seeds and showing that they fail to breed true or lack claimed uniformity.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean variety 01098358, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510078.

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 utility patent for a deposited soybean variety with no data, analysis, or scientific claims.

read the letter

This filing simply registers soybean variety 01098358 under NCMA deposit 202510078 so the breeders can claim legal protection. That is the entire content: a legal assertion of distinctness, uniformity, and stability backed by the physical seed deposit rather than by any measurements or comparisons shown here. No yield data, no disease-resistance tables, no molecular markers, and no side-by-side trials appear in the document. The work therefore adds nothing to the public scientific record; it only creates a new named line that other researchers could in principle request for testing. The strength of the filing rests entirely on the USPTO examination and the authenticity of the NCMA deposit, both of which sit outside the text itself. Because the document contains no derivations, no fitted parameters, and no falsifiable predictions, the usual questions about circularity or overfitting do not arise. At the same time, the absence of any supporting evidence means a reader cannot judge from the filing alone whether the variety actually meets statutory DUS criteria. The paper is therefore of interest only to plant-variety protection specialists, seed-company IP teams, and perhaps soybean breeders who want to know what new protected lines have been deposited. It is not a candidate for scientific peer review; it is a legal instrument, not a research report. If the goal is to track new germplasm releases, the deposit number itself is the useful fact; everything else is boilerplate claim language.

Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript is a utility patent application claiming a soybean plant of variety 01098358, defined solely by the deposit of representative seed under NCMA Accession No. 202510078. No phenotypic description, molecular markers, agronomic performance data, or breeding history is supplied.

Significance. If the deposited line satisfies statutory distinctness, uniformity and stability criteria, the variety could be of commercial interest to soybean breeders and growers. The manuscript itself, however, contains no empirical results, derivations or predictions whose validity could be assessed scientifically.

major comments (1)

The single claim (Abstract and Claim 1) asserts the existence of a protectable variety but supplies no supporting data on morphological, physiological or molecular traits that would allow independent verification of distinctness. This absence is load-bearing because DUS compliance is the statutory prerequisite for the claim.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

1 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for reviewing the application. This document is a utility patent application for a new soybean variety, not a scientific research manuscript. Protection is sought under 35 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. via a seed deposit, which is the accepted statutory mechanism for defining a plant variety when phenotypic and genotypic data are not required in the specification itself.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: The single claim (Abstract and Claim 1) asserts the existence of a protectable variety but supplies no supporting data on morphological, physiological or molecular traits that would allow independent verification of distinctness. This absence is load-bearing because DUS compliance is the statutory prerequisite for the claim.

Authors: Under U.S. patent law governing plant varieties, a deposit of representative seed with an accepted depository (here NCMA Accession No. 202510078) constitutes a complete enabling disclosure. The Patent Office examines distinctness, uniformity, and stability during prosecution; the application is not required to include trait tables or marker data to be valid. The claim is therefore statutorily supported by the deposit alone. revision: no

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No derivation chain present; circularity analysis inapplicable

full rationale

The document is a utility patent claim for soybean variety 01098358 that asserts a deposited seed line under NCMA Accession No. 202510078. It contains no equations, empirical derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citations of prior scientific results. Legal validity rests on external statutory DUS evaluation and deposit authenticity rather than any internal derivation that could reduce to its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The filing rests on the legal premise that the variety is new and distinct; no scientific axioms or free parameters are invoked.

pith-pipeline@v0.9.0 · 5332 in / 746 out tokens · 46511 ms · 2026-05-17T01:31:50.623589+00:00 · methodology

discussion (0)

Lean theorems connected to this paper

Citations machine-checked in the Pith Canon. Every link opens the source theorem in the public Lean library.

IndisputableMonolith/Foundation/RealityFromDistinction.lean reality_from_one_distinction unclear

?

unclear
Relation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.

A plant of soybean variety 01098358, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510078.
IndisputableMonolith/Cost/FunctionalEquation.lean washburn_uniqueness_aczel unclear

?

unclear
Relation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.

A plant of soybean variety 01098358, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202510078.

What do these tags mean?

matches: The paper's claim is directly supported by a theorem in the formal canon.
supports: The theorem supports part of the paper's argument, but the paper may add assumptions or extra steps.
extends: The paper goes beyond the formal theorem; the theorem is a base layer rather than the whole result.
uses: The paper appears to rely on the theorem as machinery.
contradicts: The paper's claim conflicts with a theorem or certificate in the canon.
unclear: Pith found a possible connection, but the passage is too broad, indirect, or ambiguous to say the theorem truly supports the claim.