Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

CytomX Therapeutics Inc.

4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (25%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (25%)
Double-patenting + other2 (50%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
50% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STOICA, ELLY GERALD 2 66.7% +22.8%
CANELLA, KAREN A 1 62.2% +32.8%
BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1 63.5% +39.8%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18323722 MASKED ACTIVATABLE CYTOKINE CONSTRUCTS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD STOICA, ELLY GERALD 77d
18400894 MODIFIED ANTIBODY COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF STOICA, ELLY GERALD
18354353 ANTI-CD166 ANTIBODIES, ACTIVATABLE ANTI-CD166 ANTIBODIES, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF CANELLA, KAREN A
17230240 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES, MULTISPECIFIC ACTIVATABLE ANTIBODIES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1647 1
1643 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18400894 MODIFIED ANTIBODY COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF STOICA, ELLY GERALD §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2023
18354353 ANTI-CD166 ANTIBODIES, ACTIVATABLE ANTI-CD166 ANTIBODIES, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF CANELLA, KAREN A §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2023
18323722 MASKED ACTIVATABLE CYTOKINE CONSTRUCTS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD STOICA, ELLY GERALD 1647 §112 Non-Final OA 77d Pending May 25, 2023
17230240 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES, MULTISPECIFIC ACTIVATABLE ANTIBODIES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1643 Other Final Rejection Pending Apr 14, 2021

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