Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Geistlich Pharma AG

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

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

Analysis

Geistlich Pharma AG has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This case is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a singular point of contact within the patent office. The prosecution is situated in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused technical application for the current filing.

CORNET, JEAN P serves as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This count of 1 matches the total pending office actions for the portfolio, meaning no other examiners are currently active. For the applicant, this concentration means that the success of the current intellectual property strategy is tied to the specific requirements of this one examiner. Practitioners must focus on the particular examination style and art unit trends associated with this single active matter.

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

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
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
1
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 (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CORNET, JEAN P 1 42.1% +47.5%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17612950 OXATHIAZIN COMPOUNDS FOR INHIBITING GAPDH CORNET, JEAN P 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1628 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
17612950 OXATHIAZIN COMPOUNDS FOR INHIBITING GAPDH CORNET, JEAN P 1628 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 19, 2021

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