Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Fox Rothschild LLP - Jhu

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

29 pending office actions • 4 clients • 27 examiners • 19 art units • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Fox Rothschild LLP - JHU focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, specifically for Johns Hopkins University. While the firm has a total of 10869 career applications, this profile currently has 26 pending office actions. The firm's overall resolved allowance rate is 81.44 percent.

The average of 3.36 office actions per allowance indicates the typical effort required to secure patent rights. This data highlights the firm's specialized work for academic institutions in the life sciences sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=10869 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

81.4%
Allowance Rate
n=10869
+0.62σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=10869
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=5864
-0.24σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5864
1082 days
Time to Allowance
n=5864
+12.5pp
Interview Lift
n=10869
25.9%
RCE Rate
n=10869
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=10869

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

72.8%
§101 Overcome
n=755
75.9%
§102 Overcome
n=2553
76.6%
§103 Overcome
n=3950
78.9%
§112 Overcome
n=3330

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, G01N
Top CPC Subclasses
18%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=10869
56
Practitioners
n=10869
194.1
Apps / Practitioner
n=10869

Portfolio Summary

29
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
12
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

20
Hard (69%)
8
Medium (28%)
1
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (10%)
§103 only3 (10%)
§112 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting + other5 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)17 (59%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

26
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
3% of docket
2
Business / Other
7% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

290 h
Manual time on pending OAs
58 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
102 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KENNEDY, SARAH JANE 2 0.0% +0.0%
SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH 2 63.0% +56.5%
MENSH, ANDREW J 1 64.3% +19.2%
GU, QINHUA 1 75.9% +27.8%
GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE 1 53.3% +16.1%
BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 68.8% +38.2%
RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD 1 35.7% +55.0%
CESARE, JOSEPH DAVID 1 — —
MOSS, NATALIE M 1 30.8% +17.1%
HONRATH, MARC D 1 74.5% +31.7%

Hard Cases (22)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17779936 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ANALYSES OF CANCER KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 71d overdue
18286185 TREATMENT METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PERAMPANEL BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 26d overdue
18268893 DETECTION OF LUNG CANCER USING CELL-FREE DNA FRAGMENTATION GRAY, JESSICA 18d overdue
17204892 CELL-FREE DNA FOR ASSESSING AND/OR TREATING CANCER MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 5d overdue
18013864 METHODS TO GLYCOENGINEER PROTEINS DAHLE, CHUN WU 63d
17790293 IN SITU RNA ANALYSIS USING PROBE PAIR LIGATION KENNEDY, SARAH JANE 72d
18027067 NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION USING A NUCLEASE ACTUATOR SALVOZA, M FRANCO G 84d
18972277 IN SITU NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS USING PROBE PAIR LIGATION KENNEDY, SARAH JANE —

Interview Candidates (9)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17771772 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND TREATING ESOPHAGEAL CANCER SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH 46d overdue
18286185 TREATMENT METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PERAMPANEL BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 26d overdue
18844364 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTICS TO EYE MENSH, ANDREW J —
18705720 CONTROLLING HOMEOSTATIC REGULATORY CIRCUITRY IN HYPOTHALAMUS GU, QINHUA —
18438286 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF CANCER GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE —
18280164 NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEMS SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH —
18280166 MOLECULAR INDEXING OF PROTEINS BY SELF ASSEMBLY (MIPSA) FOR EFFICIENT PROTEOMIC INVESTIGATIONS RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD —
18237744 NANOFIBER-HYDROGEL COMPOSITES FOR CELL AND TISSUE DELIVERY MOSS, NATALIE M —

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16834
16823
16752
16412
16182
16331
16251
16841
16531
37911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18972277 IN SITU NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS USING PROBE PAIR LIGATION The Johns Hopkins University KENNEDY, SARAH JANE 1682 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18844364 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTICS TO EYE The Johns Hopkins University MENSH, ANDREW J §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 05, 2024
18705720 CONTROLLING HOMEOSTATIC REGULATORY CIRCUITRY IN HYPOTHALAMUS The Johns Hopkins University GU, QINHUA 1633 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 29, 2024
18438286 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF CANCER Johns Hopkins University GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 09, 2024
18286185 TREATMENT METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PERAMPANEL The Johns Hopkins University BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1625 §102§103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2023
18280164 NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEMS The Johns Hopkins University SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH 1683 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 01, 2023
18280166 MOLECULAR INDEXING OF PROTEINS BY SELF ASSEMBLY (MIPSA) FOR EFFICIENT PROTEOMIC INVESTIGATIONS The Johns Hopkins University RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD 1684 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 01, 2023
18278998 THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS Johns Hopkins University CESARE, JOSEPH DAVID 1675 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 25, 2023
18237744 NANOFIBER-HYDROGEL COMPOSITES FOR CELL AND TISSUE DELIVERY The Johns Hopkins University MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 24, 2023
18223331 MULTI-IMAGER COMPATIBLE ROBOT FOR IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS AND FULLY AUTOMATED BRACHYTHERAPY SEED The Johns Hopkins University HONRATH, MARC D 3791 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 18, 2023
18217857 BACTERIAL BIOFILMS AND CANCER National Institutes Of Health (Nih), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (Dhhs), U.S. Government GANGLE, BRIAN J 1645 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 03, 2023
18268893 DETECTION OF LUNG CANCER USING CELL-FREE DNA FRAGMENTATION The Johns Hopkins University GRAY, JESSICA 1682 §101§103§112Other Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2023
18209992 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF RNA ANALYSIS The Johns Hopkins University POHNERT, STEVEN C 1683 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 14, 2023
18247144 INTEGRATED PROTEOMIC BIOMARKERS FOR THE DETECTION OF AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER The Johns Hopkins University DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1643 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2023
18027067 NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION USING A NUCLEASE ACTUATOR The Johns Hopkins University SALVOZA, M FRANCO G 1672 §103§112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18015684 COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF ANTI-ALLERGEN ANTIBODIES USING PHAGE DISPLAY The Johns Hopkins University ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN 1641 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 11, 2023
18013864 METHODS TO GLYCOENGINEER PROTEINS The Johns Hopkins University DAHLE, CHUN WU 1641 §102§112 Final Rejection 63d Pending Dec 29, 2022
17873980 IN SITU FORMING COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR TISSUE RESTORATION The Johns Hopkins University JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 1618 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 26, 2022
17790293 IN SITU RNA ANALYSIS USING PROBE PAIR LIGATION The Johns Hopkins University KENNEDY, SARAH JANE 1682 DPOther Final Rejection 72d Pending Jun 30, 2022
17779936 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ANALYSES OF CANCER Stichting VU KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §103§112 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending May 25, 2022
17771772 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND TREATING ESOPHAGEAL CANCER The Johns Hopkins University SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH 1683 §103DP Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2022
17770531 A CRISPR-CAS9 PLATFORM WITH AN INTRINSIC OFF-SWITCH AND ENHANCED SPECIFICITY The Johns Hopkins University REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1636 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 20, 2022
17767389 HIGHLY MULTIPLEXED DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS The Johns Hopkins University ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 1600 §103§112DP Final Rejection — Pending Apr 07, 2022
17630104 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) The Johns Hopkins University OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA 1677 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 25, 2022
17598690 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING AND TREATING CANCER The Johns Hopkins University LU, CHENG 1642 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2021
17438874 STICKY PARTICLES FOR EFFICIENT IMAGING The Johns Hopkins University CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2021
17204892 CELL-FREE DNA FOR ASSESSING AND/OR TREATING CANCER The Johns Hopkins University MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 1685 §101§103Other Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2021
17139665 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO ACCELERATE RESOLUTION OF ACUTE LUNG INFLAMMATION The Johns Hopkins University CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1699 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 31, 2020
16379763 IMMORTALIZATION OF CELLS INCLUDING NEURONAL CELLS The Johns Hopkins University DUTT, ADITI 1675 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2019

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