Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Zymeworks, Inc.

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
2
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record2 (33%)

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
HUYNH, PHUONG N 1 65.7% +53.3%
MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 1 71.5% +36.1%
LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 1 63.6% +37.5%
KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1 62.8% +51.3%
PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1 58.6% +56.4%
MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 1 43.5% +53.4%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18612960 Bispecific Asymmetric Heterodimers Comprising Anti-CD3 Constructs HUYNH, PHUONG N 238d overdue
17914261 MASKED IL12 FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 37d overdue
18017319 FUSION PROTEINS COMPRISING A LIGAND-RECEPTOR PAIR AND A BIOLOGICALLY FUNCTIONAL PROTEIN LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 32d overdue
18265341 HETERODIMERIC IGA FC CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 5d
17624541 ANTI-TISSUE FACTOR ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATES AND RELATED METHODS MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 6d
17999469 HETERODIMERIC Fc VARIANTS SELECTIVE FOR Fc GAMMA RIIB KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1674 3
1641 2
1675 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18612960 Bispecific Asymmetric Heterodimers Comprising Anti-CD3 Constructs HUYNH, PHUONG N 1641 §103 Non-Final OA 238d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18265341 HETERODIMERIC IGA FC CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 1674 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18017319 FUSION PROTEINS COMPRISING A LIGAND-RECEPTOR PAIR AND A BIOLOGICALLY FUNCTIONAL PROTEIN LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 1641 Other Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
17999469 HETERODIMERIC Fc VARIANTS SELECTIVE FOR Fc GAMMA RIIB KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17914261 MASKED IL12 FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17624541 ANTI-TISSUE FACTOR ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATES AND RELATED METHODS MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 1674 Other Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 03, 2022

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