Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Commercial Sewing Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting a moderate technical range for the company's current filings. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning that at least one examiner is handling multiple cases for the company, which can provide some continuity in the prosecution process.
BURGESS, MARC R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. The remaining 3 pending office actions are split among 3 other distinct examiners. This distribution across 3 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners requires the company to coordinate its prosecution efforts across several different technical and individual perspectives. Practitioners should focus on the 2 pending office actions assigned to BURGESS, MARC R to identify any shared issues that might also be relevant to the other 3 pending office actions.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGESS, MARC R | 2 | 33.9% | +24.1% |
| JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE | 1 | 44.4% | +6.3% |
| BROOKS, KARA JEAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| VENNE, DANIEL V | 1 | 71.2% | +15.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 3 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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