Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Hunt Ip Law

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Hunt IP Law has 6 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 235 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 67.67%, with an average of 2.71 office actions per allowance.

The profile provides a smaller application history together with current docket activity in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. The allowance rate supplies an outcome measure, while the office-action average shows the response activity associated with allowances. Practitioners should consider both when reviewing prosecution performance, while using the pending figure for immediate workload planning.

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

Quality Metrics (n=235 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

67.7%
Allowance Rate
n=235
-0.12σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=235
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=90
-0.12σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=90
696 days
Time to Allowance
n=90
+3.4pp
Interview Lift
n=235
12.0%
RCE Rate
n=235
3.0%
Appeal Rate
n=235

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

39.1%
§101 Overcome
n=23
44.7%
§102 Overcome
n=47
32.0%
§103 Overcome
n=50
62.2%
§112 Overcome
n=111

Specialization & Scale

A01H, A61K, A23L
Top CPC Subclasses
45%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=235
0
Practitioners
n=235
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=235 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)

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.

3
Hard (50%)
2
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (50%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BORI, IBRAHIM D 1 43.9% +39.0%
BYRNES, DAVID R 1 78.2% +20.9%
KRUSE, DAVID H 1 81.4% +9.6%
SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1 53.2% +47.5%
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1 51.6% +18.5%
SASAN, ARADHANA 1 64.6% +26.0%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18000918 HEMP SPROUT PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME SASAN, ARADHANA 126d overdue
18409352 CANNABIS PLANT NAMED 'CK2015' KRUSE, DAVID H 66d overdue
18336359 METHOD FOR RAPIDLY AND ACCURATELY DETECTING SARS-CoV-2 NUCLEIC ACID SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA —

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18000918 HEMP SPROUT PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME SASAN, ARADHANA 126d overdue
18750843 HIGH POTENCY EMULSIONS BORI, IBRAHIM D 9d overdue
18041015 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALS FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 3d overdue
18409264 CANNABIS PLANT NAMED 'BF2014' BYRNES, DAVID R —
18336359 METHOD FOR RAPIDLY AND ACCURATELY DETECTING SARS-CoV-2 NUCLEIC ACID SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA —

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16291
16621
16631
16821
16261
16151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18750843 HIGH POTENCY EMULSIONS Vertosa Inc. BORI, IBRAHIM D 1629 — Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18409264 CANNABIS PLANT NAMED 'BF2014' Cbiotix, LLC BYRNES, DAVID R 1662 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 10, 2024
18409352 CANNABIS PLANT NAMED 'CK2015' Cbiotix, LLC KRUSE, DAVID H 1663 §103§112 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
18336359 METHOD FOR RAPIDLY AND ACCURATELY DETECTING SARS-CoV-2 NUCLEIC ACID Colorado Genomics LLC SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1682 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 16, 2023
18041015 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALS Credo Science, LLC FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2023
18000918 HEMP SPROUT PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME Credo Science, LLC SASAN, ARADHANA 1615 §103§112 Final Rejection 126d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Hunt Ip Law's patent allowance rate?

67.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Hunt Ip Law were allowed, across 235 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Hunt Ip Law average before allowance?

2.71 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Hunt Ip Law have?

6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.

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