Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Commercial Sewing Inc.

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Commercial Sewing Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is spread across examiners but more concentrated at the art-unit level.

BURGESS, MARC R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should consider examiner-specific coordination for those matters while also tracking the practices of the 3 art units represented in the portfolio. The remaining examiner assignments call for separate response analysis.

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

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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.

4
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (17%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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
BURGESS, MARC R 2 33.8% +24.2%
OLSON, LARS A 1 82.0% +14.0%
JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 1 40.0% -7.8%
BROOKS, KARA JEAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
VENNE, DANIEL V 1 71.2% +15.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19045866 AUTOMATIC POWER BIMINI TOP OLSON, LARS A —

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18178019 LIFT ASSIST BIMINI BURGESS, MARC R 11d overdue
18473632 LIFT ASSIST BIMINI BURGESS, MARC R 8d overdue
18989550 AUTO TENSIONER FOR COVER JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE —
18543217 EYE WITH WEBBING RETAINING FEATURE BROOKS, KARA JEAN —

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
18178019 LIFT ASSIST BIMINI BURGESS, MARC R 11d overdue
18473632 LIFT ASSIST BIMINI BURGESS, MARC R 8d overdue
18470953 MANUAL BIMINI STORAGE VENNE, DANIEL V 8d overdue
19045866 AUTOMATIC POWER BIMINI TOP OLSON, LARS A —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3615 3
3634 1
3654 1
3677 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19045866 AUTOMATIC POWER BIMINI TOP OLSON, LARS A 3634 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 05, 2025
18989550 AUTO TENSIONER FOR COVER JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 3654 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18543217 EYE WITH WEBBING RETAINING FEATURE BROOKS, KARA JEAN 3677 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 18, 2023
18473632 LIFT ASSIST BIMINI BURGESS, MARC R 3615 §103§112 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18470953 MANUAL BIMINI STORAGE VENNE, DANIEL V 3615 §112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18178019 LIFT ASSIST BIMINI BURGESS, MARC R 3615 §102§103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Commercial Sewing Inc. have?

Commercial Sewing Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Commercial Sewing Inc. applications?

Marc R Burgess has the most, with 2 of Commercial Sewing Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Commercial Sewing Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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