PatentBrief

Inventor

Timothy A. Stewart

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1988

Associated with

Years active

1988

Total patents

1

Most recent

1988

Frequent collaborator

Philip Leder

Domains

biotechnologygeneticscancer-researchpharmaceuticalintellectual-property

Activity by decade

1980s
1

Patents

1

US 4736866·1988·Harvard University

OncoMouse — The First Patented Animal, Built to Get Cancer

Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart's 1988 DuPont/Harvard patent on the OncoMouse describes the first genetically engineered animal ever patented — a mouse with an activated cancer gene, used to test cancer drugs.