Soybean cultivar 23440904

Justin T. Mason, Granger, IA (US)

USPTO: us-12635653 · published 2026-05-26 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean cultivar 23440904

Justin T. Mason, Granger, IA (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-28 14:32 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10

keywords soybeancultivarplant varietyseed depositGlycine max

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A soybean plant of cultivar 23440904 is claimed with representative seed deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202410071.

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

The document establishes a new soybean cultivar by naming it 23440904 and identifying a deposited seed sample as its representative. This deposit serves as the legal anchor that defines the variety for plant protection purposes. A reader interested in crop development would see the deposit as the concrete step that distinguishes this line from others already in use.

Core claim

The central claim is a plant of soybean cultivar 23440904 whose representative seed has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202410071.

What carries the argument

The NCMA seed deposit that fixes the identity of cultivar 23440904.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds truly represent a genetically distinct line not already covered by prior soybean varieties.

What would settle it

A genetic test showing that seed from Accession No. 202410071 is indistinguishable from an existing public soybean cultivar.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean cultivar 23440904, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202410071.

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 patent filing that registers one soybean line by deposit number with zero data or comparisons inside the document.

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The document simply asserts a new cultivar, 23440904, via NCMA Accession No. 202410071. That is the entire content. No morphological traits, molecular markers, yield data, or side-by-side comparisons with existing lines appear anywhere in the text. It meets the formal requirements of a plant patent application but offers nothing an agronomist or geneticist could evaluate on its own. The legal claim of distinctness, uniformity, and stability therefore rests entirely on the external deposit and whatever examination the patent office may conduct later. For anyone tracking soybean germplasm releases this filing adds one more protected name to the list; it does not supply evidence that would let a reader judge whether the line is genuinely new or useful. Because the text contains no empirical content, derivations, or reproducible observations, it is not a candidate for scientific peer review or for citation in research papers. Colleagues working on variety protection or soybean breeding programs might want the accession number on file for legal awareness, but the document itself adds no scientific value.

Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript is a patent claim asserting the existence of a new soybean cultivar designated 23440904, with the sole supporting statement that representative seed has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202410071. No morphological descriptors, molecular profiles, yield data, or comparative trials against existing cultivars are supplied.

Significance. If the accession satisfies statutory distinctness, uniformity and stability requirements, the document would establish a protectable plant variety. However, because the text contains no empirical or genetic evidence, the work contributes no verifiable scientific knowledge about soybean germplasm.

major comments (1)

[Abstract / Claim 1] Abstract and claim 1: the assertion that cultivar 23440904 is distinct rests exclusively on the deposit number; no phenotypic, SNP, SSR, or side-by-side comparison data are provided to demonstrate novelty relative to prior art cultivars, rendering the central legal-scientific claim unsupported within the document.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

1 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the review. The document in question is a plant-patent claim whose statutory requirements are governed by U.S. patent law rather than by the evidentiary standards of a scientific journal. We address the single major comment below.

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Referee: [Abstract / Claim 1] Abstract and claim 1: the assertion that cultivar 23440904 is distinct rests exclusively on the deposit number; no phenotypic, SNP, SSR, or side-by-side comparison data are provided to demonstrate novelty relative to prior art cultivars, rendering the central legal-scientific claim unsupported within the document.

Authors: Under 35 U.S.C. § 112 and the USPTO’s plant-patent guidelines, a single claim reciting a new cultivar is enabled by a deposit of representative seed in a recognized depository (here NCMA Accession No. 202410071). The deposit itself constitutes the required disclosure of the biological material; comparative morphological or molecular data are customarily submitted during examination rather than reproduced in the published claim text. Consequently the absence of such data inside the claim does not render the claim unsupported as a matter of patent law. No revision to the claim language is possible or necessary. revision: no

standing simulated objections not resolved

The manuscript contains no phenotypic, molecular, or agronomic data; the authors cannot supply such data without fundamentally altering the document from a patent claim into a scientific article.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity; simple deposit claim with no derivation

full rationale

The document consists solely of a legal claim identifying a soybean cultivar by name and NCMA accession number. No equations, predictions, fitted parameters, ansatzes, or derivations appear anywhere in the text. The patterns enumerated for circularity (self-definitional claims, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, load-bearing self-citations, etc.) are absent by construction. The reader's supplied circularity score of 0.0 is therefore confirmed; the patent is a naming statement, not a derivation that reduces 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 deposited seed represents a distinct, stable, and uniform cultivar eligible for protection; no free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented physical entities are introduced.

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A plant of soybean cultivar 23440904, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202410071.
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A plant of soybean cultivar 23440904, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202410071.

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