Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Société D'Exploitation De Produits Pour Les Industries Chimiques-Seppic maintains a focused prosecution profile in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of its active engagement with the patent office. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's legal efforts on a single point of contact.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the pending application. EASHOO, MARK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since this 1 action is the only one pending for the company, the examiner's specific expertise and prior art interpretations will be the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress. This streamlined approach allows for a very targeted response strategy but relies heavily on the outcome of a single examination process.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 41.2% | +65.2% |
| HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1 | 48.7% | +35.4% |
| SONG, JIANFENG | 1 | 56.4% | +33.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256562 | LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION FOR HOUSEHOLD OR INDUSTRIAL USE COMPRISING A POLYMER IN THE FORM OF A PULVERULENT SOLID AS THICKENING AGENT | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 7d |
| 18572733 | COPOLYMER THICKENING COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE OIL AND AT LEAST ONE POLY(ITACONATE) FOR THICKENING POLAR OR APOLAR OILS | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17632664 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TOPICAL USE THAT IS IN THE FORM OF A DISPERSED PHASE BASED ON AT LEAST ONE SHORT DIOL IN A CONTINUOUS FATTY PHASE AND COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY SUBSTANCE | SONG, JIANFENG | 52d overdue |
| 18256562 | LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION FOR HOUSEHOLD OR INDUSTRIAL USE COMPRISING A POLYMER IN THE FORM OF A PULVERULENT SOLID AS THICKENING AGENT | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 7d |
| 18572733 | COPOLYMER THICKENING COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE OIL AND AT LEAST ONE POLY(ITACONATE) FOR THICKENING POLAR OR APOLAR OILS | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572733 | COPOLYMER THICKENING COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE OIL AND AT LEAST ONE POLY(ITACONATE) FOR THICKENING POLAR OR APOLAR OILS | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18256562 | LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION FOR HOUSEHOLD OR INDUSTRIAL USE COMPRISING A POLYMER IN THE FORM OF A PULVERULENT SOLID AS THICKENING AGENT | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 17632664 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TOPICAL USE THAT IS IN THE FORM OF A DISPERSED PHASE BASED ON AT LEAST ONE SHORT DIOL IN A CONTINUOUS FATTY PHASE AND COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY SUBSTANCE | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSociété d'Exploitation de Produits pour les Industries Chimiques (SEPPIC) has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Dongxiu Zhang Spiering has the most, with 1 of Société d'Exploitation de Produits pour les Industries Chimiques (SEPPIC)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
