1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Zep Inc. currently has 1 pending office action. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BASQUILL, SEAN M. This individual is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with a pending count of 1. The data indicates that there are 0 distinct art units associated with these filings.
The concentration of the entire pending workload under 1 distinct examiner suggests a very narrow focus for the company's current patent activities. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to understanding the specific examination style and preferences of BASQUILL, SEAN M. This singular focus eliminates the need to coordinate across different examiner personalities or departmental standards.
Having 0 distinct art units is a unique characteristic of this portfolio's current data. This suggests that the pending office action may be in a transitional state or assigned to a non-standard classification. Despite this, the presence of the pending office action ensures that the company maintains an active presence in the patent prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1 | 38.8% | +21.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917800 | STORAGE STABLE SOLUTION COMPRISING HYPOCHLOROUS ACID AND/OR HYPOCHLORITE | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917800 | STORAGE STABLE SOLUTION COMPRISING HYPOCHLOROUS ACID AND/OR HYPOCHLORITE | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZep Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
Sean M Basquill has the most, with 1 of Zep Inc.'s pending office actions.
