https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2105.html

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Is the USPTO allowed, under current law, to issue a patent on a full-term creature containing both human and nonhuman cells - so called "chimeras"?

Should it?

Would your opinion change if granting patents spurred investment in technology that improved human chimerism in evolutionarily distant species that could be used to increase the supply of transplantable organs and other healthcare advances?