Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Squire Pb (Sutro Biopharma)

5 pending office actions • 1 client • 4 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=21862 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

81.8%
Allowance Rate
n=21862
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=21862
3.8
OAs to Allowance
n=12437
+0.18σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=12437
1182 days
Time to Allowance
n=12437
+10.7pp
Interview Lift
n=21862
31.2%
RCE Rate
n=21862
3.1%
Appeal Rate
n=21862

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

86.0%
§101 Overcome
n=335
82.7%
§102 Overcome
n=1810
81.5%
§103 Overcome
n=7674
88.3%
§112 Overcome
n=1301

Specialization & Scale

H04W, H04L, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
18%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=21862
13
Practitioners
n=21862
1681.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=21862

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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%)
1
Medium (20%)
3
Easy (60%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (20%)
§112 only3 (60%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUYNH, PHUONG N 2 65.7% +53.7%
JACKSON, SHAWQUIA 1 78.0% -3.4%
HOWARD, ZACHARY C 1 63.9% +38.2%
ESSEX, LAURA ANN 1 59.8% +35.6%

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
17276757 COMBINATION THERAPIES WITH ANTI-FOLATE RECEPTOR ANTIBODY CONJUGATES ESSEX, LAURA ANN 46d overdue
17727395 ANTIBODIES COMPRISING MULTIPLE SITE-SPECIFIC NON-NATURAL AMINO ACID RESIDUES, METHODS OF THEIR PREPARATION AND METHODS OF THEIR USE HUYNH, PHUONG N 2d overdue
18426426 ANTIBODIES COMPRISING SITE-SPECIFIC NON-NATURAL AMINO ACID RESIDUES, METHODS OF THEIR PREPARATION AND METHODS OF THEIR USE HUYNH, PHUONG N
18357956 ANTI-CD74 ANTIBODY CONJUGATES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ANTI CD74 ANTIBODY CONJUGATES AND METHODS OF USING ANTI-CD74 ANTIBODY CONJUGATES HOWARD, ZACHARY C

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
SUTRO BIOPHARMA, INC. 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16412
16741
16751

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18789214 STING AGONIST COMPOUNDS AND CONJUGATES Sutro Biopharma, Inc. JACKSON, SHAWQUIA §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 30, 2024
18426426 ANTIBODIES COMPRISING SITE-SPECIFIC NON-NATURAL AMINO ACID RESIDUES, METHODS OF THEIR PREPARATION AND METHODS OF THEIR USE Sutro Biopharma, Inc. HUYNH, PHUONG N 1641 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18357956 ANTI-CD74 ANTIBODY CONJUGATES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ANTI CD74 ANTIBODY CONJUGATES AND METHODS OF USING ANTI-CD74 ANTIBODY CONJUGATES Sutro Biopharma, Inc. HOWARD, ZACHARY C 1674 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2023
17727395 ANTIBODIES COMPRISING MULTIPLE SITE-SPECIFIC NON-NATURAL AMINO ACID RESIDUES, METHODS OF THEIR PREPARATION AND METHODS OF THEIR USE Sutro Biopharma, Inc. HUYNH, PHUONG N 1641 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022
17276757 COMBINATION THERAPIES WITH ANTI-FOLATE RECEPTOR ANTIBODY CONJUGATES Sutro Biopharma, Inc. ESSEX, LAURA ANN 1675 §112 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2021

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