Soybean cultivar 23322104

William H. Eby, Panora, IA (US)

USPTO: us-12642236 · published 2026-06-02 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean cultivar 23322104

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

Pith reviewed 2026-06-04 16:02 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10

keywords soybeancultivarplant patentseed depositGlycine max

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The pith

A soybean plant of cultivar 23322104 has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202409074.

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

The paper establishes a new soybean cultivar named 23322104. It does so by depositing representative seed at a recognized repository and claiming the plant produced from that seed. A sympathetic reader would care because the deposit provides a legal and biological reference point for this specific line, allowing others to obtain and work with it under the terms of the patent. The central object is the deposited seed itself, which is asserted to reproduce the cultivar faithfully.

Core claim

A plant of soybean cultivar 23322104, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202409074.

What carries the argument

The deposited seed under NCMA Accession No. 202409074, which serves as the fixed biological reference that defines and reproduces the claimed cultivar.

If this is right

Breeders can request the deposited seed to cross with other lines under patent licensing terms.
The cultivar can be used as a parent in further variety development programs.
Commercial seed production of 23322104 becomes possible once the patent issues.
Agronomic testing can now reference this exact genetic background.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

If the cultivar shows superior yield or disease resistance, those traits would become available for stacking into other varieties.
The deposit creates a permanent public record that later genetic studies could use to trace lineage.
Similar deposits for other crops would follow the same legal mechanism.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seed is genetically stable, distinct from prior cultivars, and produces plants that match the claimed line under standard conditions.

What would settle it

Grow plants from the deposited seed and compare them side-by-side with existing commercial soybean cultivars for morphological or genetic differences; absence of distinction would falsify the claim.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean cultivar 23322104, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202409074.

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 US plant patent that simply registers one new soybean cultivar by seed deposit with no data or methods attached.

read the letter

The document registers soybean cultivar 23322104 under NCMA accession 202409074. That is the entire technical content: a legal claim to a named line supported by a deposited seed sample. Nothing else is asserted or shown. The filing therefore adds one more protected variety to the commercial germplasm pool, which is its only concrete outcome. No breeding method, yield trial, marker profile, or comparison to existing public lines appears anywhere in the text. The work is therefore new only in the narrow legal sense that a new accession number now exists. It performs its intended administrative function cleanly by meeting the minimal deposit requirement for a plant patent. The absence of performance data or distinctness evidence is not a flaw in the patent itself; it is simply outside the scope of what this document type supplies. Readers who need the actual seed for crossing or testing will still have to obtain it through the depositor or licensee. The filing contains no equations, statistics, or experimental claims that could be checked or refuted, so there is nothing to stress-test on scientific grounds. This kind of document is useful to commercial breeders or seed companies that track protected germplasm for licensing or freedom-to-operate checks. It is not material for a research reading group or for citation in a methods or genetics paper. A serious editor would desk-reject it for peer review because the text is a legal instrument rather than a research contribution.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript is a US plant patent whose sole claim asserts the existence of soybean cultivar 23322104, supported only by the legal deposit of representative seed under NCMA Accession No. 202409074.

Significance. If the deposited line is genetically stable and distinct, the cultivar could possess commercial utility in soybean breeding; however, the document supplies no trait data, yield trials, molecular markers, or comparisons to prior art, so it contributes no verifiable scientific result.

major comments (1)

[Claim 1] Claim 1: the assertion that the deposited seed defines a new cultivar rests entirely on the accession number; no morphological descriptors, agronomic performance data, or genetic evidence are supplied to establish distinctness or stability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for reviewing this plant patent application. We note that the document is a legal instrument under 35 U.S.C. § 161 rather than a scientific research article; its purpose is to secure intellectual property rights via seed deposit, not to report experimental data or performance trials. Below we address the single major comment.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Claim 1] Claim 1: the assertion that the deposited seed defines a new cultivar rests entirely on the accession number; no morphological descriptors, agronomic performance data, or genetic evidence are supplied to establish distinctness or stability.

Authors: Under USPTO practice for plant patents, distinctness, uniformity, and stability are satisfied by the seed deposit itself when the cultivar is named and claimed as deposited (see 37 C.F.R. § 1.801–1.809 and MPEP § 1600). The specification need not contain trait tables or molecular data; the accession number provides the enabling disclosure. No additional evidence is required to support the single claim as drafted. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The document is a US plant patent whose sole claim asserts the existence of soybean cultivar 23322104 supported by a named seed deposit (NCMA Accession No. 202409074). No equations, fitted parameters, derivations, predictions, or self-citations appear anywhere in the text. The claim reduces directly to the physical deposit rather than to any internal construction or prior author work, so none of the enumerated circularity patterns apply.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No scientific model or derivation is present; the document is a plant-variety patent whose validity rests on legal deposit requirements rather than any technical axioms or parameters.

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Soybean cultivar 23322104

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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