In an upset to mad-scientists everywhere, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied a patent application entitled “Chimeric embryos and animals containing human cells”. The patent claimed a half-human/half-non-human animal and embryo. Among the described animals or embryos were a mouse-human, a baboon-human, a chimpanzee-human, and a pig-human. The inventor, Dr. Stuart A. Newman, had no intention of ever producing such creatures.