Tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF

Pascal Wanten, Nunhem (NL)

USPTO: us-12648539 · published 2026-06-09 · patents · A01H 6/825· A01H 1/00· A01H 5/08

Tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF

Pascal Wanten, Nunhem (NL) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-06-10 10:32 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/825A01H 1/00A01H 5/08

keywords tomato varietyNUN 09416 TOFseed depositNCIMB 44044plant patentcultivar protection

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The pith

A tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF is defined by seeds deposited as NCIMB 44044.

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

The document asserts the existence of tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF through a single claim that names a plant or seed of that variety and points to a deposited seed sample. The deposit serves as the legal anchor for the variety under patent rules. A reader would care because the statement creates a reference point for reproducing, protecting, or comparing this specific cultivar in agriculture and breeding.

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a plant or seed of tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF exists, with a representative sample of its seeds deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44044.

What carries the argument

The seed deposit under NCIMB 44044, which functions as the representative sample that defines and identifies the variety.

If this is right

The variety can be reproduced from the deposited seeds for commercial or research use.
The accession number provides a fixed reference for legal protection of this tomato line.
Breeders gain a named starting point for crosses involving NUN 09416 TOF.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

If the deposit holds, seed companies could license or sell this variety under the given name.
The claim leaves open whether additional trait data would be needed to distinguish it from similar tomatoes in practice.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds constitute a distinct, stable, and novel variety that satisfies patent requirements.

What would settle it

Phenotypic or genetic comparison of plants grown from the NCIMB 44044 seeds that shows they match an earlier named variety or fail stability tests.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant or seed of tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF, wherein a representative sample of seeds of said tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44044.

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 patent claim for tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF defined only by a seed deposit, with no data, traits, or comparisons provided.

read the letter

This document is a US patent for tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF. The single claim states that a plant or seed of the variety has a representative sample deposited under NCIMB 44044. That is the full content shown. It is a legal filing from Nunhem, not a research report with measurements or experiments. What is new here is the specific naming and deposit of this variety for intellectual property protection, which is the standard way seed companies lock in rights to bred lines. The document does what a patent claim is meant to do: it ties the variety name to a physical reference sample. That reference allows later verification if needed. The main limitation is the total lack of supporting information. No trait data, no yield figures, no disease resistance notes, and no comparison to existing varieties appear in the text. Distinctness, uniformity, and stability are asserted through the legal process but not shown or tested here. Anyone wanting to assess whether this line is actually different from prior NUN varieties or other commercial tomatoes has nothing to go on from the document itself. This kind of filing is relevant only to readers who track plant variety protection in tomatoes, such as other breeders or IP specialists in agriculture. It has no place in a scientific reading group. I would not cite it in research work. It should not be sent for peer review because it contains no scientific claims, derivations, or results that require technical evaluation. Treat it as a patent record if it intersects with your own work on variety rights.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents a single patent claim for a tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF, defined solely by the statement that a representative sample of its seeds has been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB 44044.

Significance. If the deposit is accepted, the claim provides a legal mechanism for defining and protecting the variety. However, the complete absence of any trait data, breeding history, phenotypic measurements, or distinctness evidence means the manuscript makes no contribution to scientific understanding of tomato genetics or breeding.

major comments (1)

[Claim 1] Claim 1: the central assertion that this constitutes a distinct tomato variety is supported only by the seed deposit statement; no data on traits, uniformity, stability, or differentiation from prior art is provided anywhere in the manuscript, rendering the claim unverifiable on scientific grounds.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's review. This submission is a patent claim document, not a scientific research article, and follows the standard format for defining a plant variety via seed deposit under applicable patent law.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Claim 1] Claim 1: the central assertion that this constitutes a distinct tomato variety is supported only by the seed deposit statement; no data on traits, uniformity, stability, or differentiation from prior art is provided anywhere in the manuscript, rendering the claim unverifiable on scientific grounds.

Authors: The referee accurately observes that the claim consists solely of the variety name and the NCIMB 44044 seed deposit statement, with no accompanying trait data, breeding history, or phenotypic details. For patent purposes, however, the deposit itself constitutes the enabling disclosure and definition of the variety under the Budapest Treaty, which governs international recognition of deposits for patent procedure (including seeds). This approach is standard for plant variety patents and does not require inclusion of scientific measurements within the claim text. The distinctness is established through the unique genetic identity represented by the deposited material. We do not claim a scientific contribution and therefore do not plan to revise the document to add such data. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The document consists of a single patent claim that defines tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF exclusively by reference to a deposited seed sample (Accession Number NCIMB 44044). No equations, models, derivations, predictions, statistical fits, or self-citations appear anywhere in the text. The claim is a legal definition by deposit and contains no load-bearing steps that could reduce to inputs by construction. This is the expected outcome for a non-scientific patent document with no analytical content.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

This is a patent document asserting a plant variety; no free parameters, scientific axioms, or invented entities are introduced in the provided abstract.

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Tomato variety NUN 09416 TOF

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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