Soybean cultivar 20142104

William H. Eby, Panora, IA (US)

USPTO: us-12642237 · published 2026-06-02 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10· C12Q 1/6895· C12Q 2600/156

Soybean cultivar 20142104

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

Pith reviewed 2026-06-04 16:30 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10C12Q 1/6895C12Q 2600/156

keywords soybeancultivarplant varietyseed depositpatent

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The pith

A soybean cultivar is defined by a deposited seed sample under accession 202409076.

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 soybean cultivar 20142104 on the basis of a physical seed deposit. The cultivar is presented as a distinct, uniform, and stable plant variety whose identity is fixed by that deposit rather than by a written description alone. A reader would care because the claim creates an enforceable property right over seed production and sale of this specific line. The central object carrying the argument is the NCMA seed deposit itself, which functions as the reference standard for the entire variety.

Core claim

A plant of soybean cultivar 20142104, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No 202409076.

What carries the argument

The NCMA seed deposit (accession 202409076), which fixes the genetic identity of the cultivar.

If this is right

Seed of this cultivar can be sold and multiplied only under license from the rights holder.
Any plant grown from the deposited seed or its progeny falls inside the claimed scope.
The cultivar can be used as a parent in further breeding programs while the deposit remains the reference point.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Commercial soybean breeders could test whether their own lines match the deposited sample to avoid infringement.
The deposit creates a fixed reference that later genomic studies could use to map traits unique to this line.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds are genetically stable, uniform, and distinct from all previously known soybean cultivars.

What would settle it

DNA fingerprinting or grow-out trials that show the deposited seeds are either genetically unstable across generations or indistinguishable from an existing public soybean variety.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean cultivar 20142104, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No 202409076.

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 bare legal filing that names a new soybean accession number but supplies zero trait data, comparisons, or methods.

read the letter

The only new fact here is the administrative deposit of seed under NCMA 202409076 and the cultivar designation 20142104. Everything else is a single-sentence claim. No morphological, agronomic, molecular, or stability data appear anywhere in the document, so there is no way to judge distinctness from existing lines or uniformity within the line. That absence is not a minor omission; it is the entire content. Patents of this type exist to secure IP rather than to communicate reproducible observations, and this one follows that pattern exactly. Readers looking for breeding information, marker profiles, or performance numbers will find nothing to use. The work is therefore of interest only to patent attorneys tracking soybean variety protection and to the company that owns the deposit. It does not contain the kind of evidence or analysis that would justify sending it to scientific referees. If the goal is to keep a literature database clean of pure administrative filings, desk rejection is the right call.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript consists of a single claim asserting the existence of soybean cultivar 20142104, whose representative seed has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202409076.

Significance. The filing asserts a new protected cultivar but supplies no phenotypic, molecular, or agronomic characterization; consequently it adds no verifiable scientific information even if the legal deposit is valid.

major comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract (Claim 1): the sole statement asserts distinctness, uniformity and stability solely by reference to a seed deposit; no morphological descriptors, marker profiles, yield data, or comparative tables are supplied to substantiate any of these requirements.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for reviewing the document. We note at the outset that the submission is a U.S. patent application claiming a new soybean cultivar by seed deposit, not a scientific research article. Patent requirements for plant cultivars are governed by 35 U.S.C. § 112 and USPTO practice rather than journal standards for phenotypic or molecular data.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (Claim 1): the sole statement asserts distinctness, uniformity and stability solely by reference to a seed deposit; no morphological descriptors, marker profiles, yield data, or comparative tables are supplied to substantiate any of these requirements.

Authors: The single claim is the complete and standard form used in U.S. utility patents for new plant cultivars. Distinctness, uniformity, and stability are satisfied under patent law by the deposit of representative seed with an accepted depository (here NCMA Accession No. 202409076) together with the enabling disclosure required by 35 U.S.C. § 112. Additional agronomic tables or marker profiles are not required for the claim itself and are customarily supplied, if at all, in the specification or in separate PVP filings. The document therefore meets the legal standard for which it was prepared. revision: no

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No derivation or quantitative claim present; filing is an administrative seed-deposit assertion

full rationale

The document consists solely of a single claim asserting the existence of soybean cultivar 20142104 by reference to a deposited seed accession. No equations, predictions, fitted parameters, ansatzes, uniqueness theorems, or self-citations appear. Consequently none of the enumerated circularity patterns (self-definitional, fitted-input-called-prediction, self-citation load-bearing, etc.) can arise. The text contains no derivation chain that could reduce to its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the legal premise that a deposited seed sample constitutes sufficient enablement and distinctness for plant-variety protection; no free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented physical entities are introduced.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Deposited seed is viable, uniform, and stable enough to represent the claimed cultivar
Required by U.S. plant-variety protection statutes; invoked implicitly by the accession statement.

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A plant of soybean cultivar 20142104, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No 202409076.

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