title: The human use of humanoid beings: chimeras and patent law.
abstract: As biotechnology advances, the day may soon come for the creation of a self-aware, human-nonhuman chimera. The USPTO has ruled on whether a patent may issue on such an organism, but Congress must still legislate a dividing line between human and non-human patentable subject matter.
authors: Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, LLP, One Commerce Plaza, Albany, New York 12260, USA. srabin@woh.com
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