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Detailed Statement in support of request for Reexamination of U.S. Plant Patent N° 5,751

Abstract

This request for reexamination is being filed by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), on behalf of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) and the Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment (Amazon Coalition). The Requesters respectfully seek a determination by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) on the issue of whether the above-referenced prior art raises a substantial new question of patentability regarding Claim 1, the sole claim of the patent. This claim is for a new and distinct variety (cultivar) of the species Banisteriopsis caapi, dubbed “Da Vine” by Miller, the patent applicant.