Soybean variety 01098110

David L. Price, Eureka, MO (US); Joseph Jedlicka, Ballwin, MO (US); Leandro Mozzoni, Lincoln, NE (US)

USPTO: us-12642241 · published 2026-06-02 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean variety 01098110

Joseph Jedlicka, Ballwin, MO (US) , Leandro Mozzoni, Lincoln, NE (US) , David L. Price, Eureka, MO (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-06-04 18:31 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10

keywords soybean varietyplant patentseed deposit01098110NCMA accession

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The pith

A soybean plant of variety 01098110 is defined by seeds deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306034.

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

The paper seeks plant-variety protection for soybean line 01098110. Its central statement is that any plant of this variety is covered once representative seed is placed in a recognized depository. A sympathetic reader would see this as the legal step that lets the breeder control propagation and commercialization of the line. The document supplies no further description of traits or performance data.

Core claim

The paper asserts that a plant of soybean variety 01098110 is protected when representative seed of that variety has been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306034.

What carries the argument

The NCMA seed deposit (Accession No. 202306034) that stands in for the written description of the variety.

If this is right

The variety can be propagated only from the deposited seed stock under the patent holder’s control.
Any crossing or breeding program that uses this line falls within the scope of the granted right.
Commercial sale of seed or grain of 01098110 requires a license from the owner.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Future users could test the deposited seed for agronomic traits the patent itself does not report.
The accession number creates a permanent physical reference that later disputes about identity can be checked against.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds truly represent a stable, distinct, and novel variety that satisfies the legal criteria for plant-variety protection.

What would settle it

Morphological, agronomic, or DNA comparison demonstrating that plants grown from the deposited seeds are indistinguishable from an already-known soybean variety.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean variety 01098110, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306034.

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 U.S. plant patent filing that registers one new soybean variety name and a seed deposit, with zero data or analysis attached.

read the letter

The document is exactly what the title says: a plant patent application for soybean variety 01098110. Its single claim rests on the legal deposit of seed under NCMA Accession No. 202306034. That is the entire contribution. No morphological description, yield data, molecular markers, or comparison to existing varieties appears anywhere in the text. The filing therefore adds a protected line to the public record but supplies nothing that could be checked, replicated, or used in further breeding work without obtaining the deposited seed itself. The legal mechanism is standard and the absence of supporting data is also standard for this document type. Readers who track soybean germplasm releases or who need to clear freedom-to-operate questions may want the accession number on file. Everyone else can ignore it. Because the text contains no empirical claims, no derivations, and no experimental results, it does not belong in a scientific reading group or a research journal's referee process. If the goal is simply to know that this named line now carries patent protection, the filing achieves that narrow purpose; otherwise it offers no scientific content worth engaging.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript is a U.S. plant patent application whose sole disclosed claim asserts the existence of soybean variety 01098110, defined exclusively by the deposit of representative seed under NCMA Accession No. 202306034. No morphological descriptors, agronomic performance data, molecular markers, or comparative tables are supplied.

Significance. A valid and distinct variety deposit would have commercial and breeding value, but the absence of any phenotypic, genotypic, or stability evidence prevents scientific evaluation of novelty or utility. The work therefore contributes no reproducible biological insight.

major comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract (claim 1): the central assertion reduces to the legal existence of a seed deposit; without any accompanying description of distinguishing traits, the claim cannot be assessed for compliance with plant-variety distinctness or uniformity standards.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the review. The submitted document is a U.S. plant patent application (not a scientific manuscript), and its content and format are governed by 35 U.S.C. § 162 and USPTO practice for plant patents, which permit definition of a variety by reference to a seed deposit without inclusion of morphological or agronomic data in the claim itself.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (claim 1): the central assertion reduces to the legal existence of a seed deposit; without any accompanying description of distinguishing traits, the claim cannot be assessed for compliance with plant-variety distinctness or uniformity standards.

Authors: The single claim is drafted in the standard form approved for plant patents when a deposit has been made under 37 C.F.R. § 1.802. Distinctness, uniformity, and stability are established during USPTO examination by the deposited seed and any supporting data the examiner may request; they are not required to appear in the published claim language. The absence of phenotypic descriptors is therefore intentional and consistent with the legal purpose of the document. revision: no

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity

full rationale

The document consists solely of a single legal claim asserting a soybean variety by reference to a seed deposit accession number. No equations, derivations, predictions, parameters, or citations (self or otherwise) are present, so none of the enumerated circularity patterns can apply. The filing is self-contained as a deposit statement with no load-bearing scientific steps that reduce to their own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The filing rests on the legal axiom that a seed deposit suffices to define and protect a plant variety; no free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented physical entities appear.

axioms (1)

domain assumption A deposited seed sample legally constitutes a complete enabling disclosure of the plant variety.
Standard assumption in plant-variety protection statutes invoked by the accession statement.

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Soybean variety 01098110

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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