Soybean variety 01094302

Thomas P. Jury, Wildwood, MO (US)

USPTO: us-12628780 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean variety 01094302

Thomas P. Jury, Wildwood, MO (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 14:31 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10

keywords soybean varietyplant patentseed deposit01094302NCMA accessionGlycine max

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The pith

Soybean variety 01094302 is claimed through a public seed deposit at NCMA accession 202205010.

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

This patent document defines and protects a distinct soybean variety designated 01094302. The central act is the deposit of representative seeds at the National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota under accession number 202205010, which serves as the fixed reference for the variety's identity. A sympathetic reader sees this as a standard mechanism that gives the breeder enforceable rights while placing the genetic material into a recognized public repository. The move matters because it converts an otherwise private breeding line into a legally recognized, verifiable cultivar that others can study or license under patent rules.

Core claim

A plant of soybean variety 01094302, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202205010.

What carries the argument

The NCMA seed deposit (accession 202205010) that fixes the genetic identity of variety 01094302 and satisfies enablement requirements for the patent claim.

If this is right

The variety receives patent protection enforceable against unauthorized commercial use.
Breeders gain a stable reference line for crossing or trait comparison.
The accession number allows any qualified party to obtain seed samples for research or verification.
Future claims or licenses can be written directly against the deposited material.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Similar deposits could be used to protect other elite soybean lines without publishing full genomic sequences.
The accession may become a standard check variety in regional yield trials once commercialized.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds must accurately and stably reproduce the claimed variety in all subsequent generations.

What would settle it

Growing plants from the deposited seeds and finding that they consistently fail to match the agronomic or morphological description filed for variety 01094302.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean variety 01094302, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202205010.

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 utility patent for one new soybean variety, enabled only by a public seed deposit and carrying no data or scientific claims.

read the letter

The filing simply asserts a new protected soybean line, 01094302, with representative seed deposited at NCMA under accession 202205010. That deposit is the entire enablement; the text contains no trait data, yield trials, molecular markers, or comparisons to existing varieties. In patent terms this is standard and sufficient for a plant variety claim, but it adds nothing testable or reproducible for a research audience. The work is therefore new only in the narrow legal sense of establishing priority for this specific genotype. No derivations, parameters, or empirical results appear, so the usual questions of soundness or circularity do not really apply. The document is coherent on its own legal terms and does not pretend to be a scientific paper. For a colleague working on soybean breeding or IP strategy it might be worth noting the accession number; for anyone else it has no usable content. I would not bring it to a reading group and would not cite it. A serious editor should desk-reject it if submitted as research and would not send it for peer review.

Referee Report

1 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript consists of a single utility-patent claim for soybean variety 01094302, whose enablement is asserted solely by a public seed deposit under NCMA Accession No. 202205010.

Significance. If the variety satisfies statutory requirements for novelty, non-obviousness, and enablement, the claim would establish intellectual-property rights with potential commercial value in soybean breeding; however, the submission supplies no agronomic, genetic, or phenotypic data that would allow scientific assessment of distinctiveness or utility.

major comments (1)

Abstract / sole claim: the manuscript contains no methods, results, or comparative data; therefore the assertion that the deposited material constitutes a patentable new variety cannot be evaluated from the text alone.

minor comments (1)

The document lacks any of the standard sections (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion) expected in a journal submission.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

1 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the review. This submission is a utility-patent claim whose enablement rests on a public seed deposit, consistent with established practice for plant-variety patents. Below we address the single major comment.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: Abstract / sole claim: the manuscript contains no methods, results, or comparative data; therefore the assertion that the deposited material constitutes a patentable new variety cannot be evaluated from the text alone.

Authors: Under U.S. patent law, enablement for a plant-variety claim is satisfied by a public deposit of representative seed (here NCMA Accession No. 202205010). The claim itself defines the scope; supporting agronomic or phenotypic data are not required in the specification to render the claim enabled or to establish novelty/non-obviousness relative to the deposited material. Any further characterization would be appropriate for a scientific publication, not for this patent filing. revision: no

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity; legal definition via seed deposit

full rationale

The document consists solely of a utility-patent claim that identifies soybean variety 01094302 by reference to a public seed deposit (NCMA 202205010). No equations, fitted parameters, derivations, predictions, or self-citations appear. The central statement is therefore a legal definition rather than a scientific derivation that could reduce to its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are present; the document is a legal deposit statement.

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A plant of soybean variety 01094302, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202205010.

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