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USPTO: us-12648540 · published 2026-06-09 · patents · A01H 6/825· A01H 1/00· A01H 5/08

Hybrid tomato variety 72-CH0360 RZ

Antonio Coniglio, De Lier (NL) This is my paper

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classification patents A01H 6/825A01H 1/00A01H 5/08
keywords hybrid tomatoplant varietyseed depositNCIMB accessionpatent claim72-CH0360 RZtomato hybridSolanum lycopersicum
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The pith

A seed of tomato hybrid variety 72-CH0360 RZ has been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44228.

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

This patent document asserts the existence of tomato hybrid variety 72-CH0360 RZ through a specific seed deposit. A representative sample of its seeds has been placed at NCIMB under accession number 44228. The deposit serves as the formal reference point that establishes the variety's identity for legal purposes. Readers in agriculture or plant breeding would note this because it creates a documented starting point for reproducing and protecting a new crop line.

Core claim

The central claim is a seed of tomato hybrid variety 72-CH0360 RZ, a representative sample of seed of variety 72-CH0360 RZ having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44228.

What carries the argument

The deposited seed sample under NCIMB Accession No. 44228, which functions as the official representative defining the hybrid tomato variety 72-CH0360 RZ.

If this is right

  • The variety can be reproduced and maintained from the deposited seeds.
  • The deposit fulfills the reference requirement for patent claims on the hybrid.
  • Independent parties can use the accession to verify or obtain the variety under the patent terms.
  • The variety becomes eligible for commercial exploitation under the granted patent rights.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The deposit creates a permanent public record that could allow access to the variety after the patent term ends.
  • This approach follows standard practice for enabling claims on living plant material in patent systems.
  • Similar seed deposits may support related applications for plant variety protection in other jurisdictions.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seed sample accurately represents a distinct, stable, and reproducible hybrid variety that meets the legal requirements for patent protection.

What would settle it

Growing multiple generations of plants from the deposited seeds and finding they lack uniformity, stability, or distinctness from existing tomato varieties would falsify the claim.

read the original abstract

1 . A seed of tomato hybrid variety 72-CH0360 RZ, a representative sample of seed of variety 72-CH0360 RZ having been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44228.

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.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript asserts a single claim for hybrid tomato variety 72-CH0360 RZ, stating that a representative seed sample has been deposited under NCIMB Accession No. 44228.

Significance. If independently verified as distinct, uniform, and stable, the variety could hold commercial value for tomato production, but the manuscript supplies no trait data, breeding history, or performance metrics, so no scientific or agronomic significance can be assessed.

major comments (1)
  1. [Claim 1] Claim 1: the assertion that the deposited seed represents a distinct hybrid variety is unsupported by any morphological descriptions, genetic data, yield trials, or stability evidence within the manuscript; the claim therefore reduces to a legal deposit statement without verifiable scientific content.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for reviewing the submission. We note that the document is a patent claim for a hybrid tomato variety rather than a scientific manuscript; the variety is defined by the deposited seed sample in accordance with standard patent practice for plant varieties.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: Claim 1: the assertion that the deposited seed represents a distinct hybrid variety is unsupported by any morphological descriptions, genetic data, yield trials, or stability evidence within the manuscript; the claim therefore reduces to a legal deposit statement without verifiable scientific content.

    Authors: We disagree. This is a patent claim, not a scientific paper. In utility patents or plant variety protection filings, a hybrid variety may be claimed by reference to a deposited representative seed sample (here NCIMB 44228), which constitutes the enabling disclosure and definition of the variety under applicable patent law. Morphological, genetic, or performance data are not required to appear within the claim language itself and may reside in the specification or be verified through the deposit. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The document is a plant variety patent whose sole content is a legal claim asserting a deposited seed sample (NCIMB 44228) for hybrid tomato 72-CH0360 RZ. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, self-citations, or ansatzes exist in the text. The claim relies on an external accession deposit and statutory requirements for distinctness/stability rather than any internal chain that reduces to its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The document is a legal patent filing, not a scientific derivation. No free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented scientific entities are involved.

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