Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
32 pending office actions • 18 art units • 31 examiners • 0 of 32 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 73 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shopify Inc. currently has 33 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 19 distinct art units, reflecting a range of software innovations. The company works with 32 distinct examiners to move these applications forward. Tauqir Hussain is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending office actions.
The remaining actions are spread among other distinct examiners, showing a high level of examiner diversity. The presence of 19 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings are technically diverse. With 32 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution strategy must account for many different individual approaches. The number of 33 pending office actions is higher than the 2 actions assigned to the busiest examiner. Tauqir Hussain manages 2 of the active cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 4 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 11 (34%) |
| §103 only | 10 (31%) |
| §112 only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | 2 | 84.3% | +25.8% |
| ARJOMANDI, NOOSHA | 1 | 86.0% | +10.3% |
| KO, CHAE M | 1 | 89.1% | +4.8% |
| HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | 1 | 76.7% | +25.3% |
| SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 57.4% | +42.9% |
| RICHER, AARON M | 1 | 52.4% | +20.7% |
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.7% | +36.2% |
| PATEL, JITESH | 1 | 78.8% | +12.3% |
| LHYMN, SARAH | 1 | 65.9% | +15.0% |
| WILDER, ANDREW H | 1 | 62.6% | +58.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893296 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPILLOVER FROM COOKIE TO DATABASE | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | 3d overdue |
| 19240894 | ALLOCATING AND DEPLOYING DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE RESOURCES FOR VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION USING REDUNDANCY POLICY | KO, CHAE M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18648949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT IMAGE RECOMMENDATIONS | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 46d overdue |
| 18354908 | NOTIFICATION MESSAGES GENERATED BY A GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL | KE, PENG | 31d overdue |
| 18738705 | Computer System, Computer-Implemented Method, and Computer Readable Media For Error Handling When Prompting A Large Language Model (LLM) | LOTTICH, JOSHUA P | 15d overdue |
| 17847867 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONSIVE AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT | SONNERS, SCOTT E | 3d overdue |
| 17814372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING BENCHMARKING TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN EXECUTABLE PROGRAM WILL SATISFY ONE OR MORE PERFORMANCE-BASED CRITERIA FOR EXECUTION ON AN EXECUTION PLATFORM | AMIN, MUSTAFA A | 30d |
| 18515913 | EMBEDDING-BASED SEARCH OF AN ITEM STORE | LADONI, AHOORA | 40d |
| 18744792 | CLASSIFICATION USING A GRAMMAR-CONSTRAINED GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | 83d |
| 19275588 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC QUERY-DEPENDENT WEIGHTING OF EMBEDDINGS IN HYBRID SEARCH | ARJOMANDI, NOOSHA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893296 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPILLOVER FROM COOKIE TO DATABASE | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | 3d overdue |
| 19275588 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC QUERY-DEPENDENT WEIGHTING OF EMBEDDINGS IN HYBRID SEARCH | ARJOMANDI, NOOSHA | — |
| 19234547 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WORKFLOW ATTESTATION | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | — |
| 19232084 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROSS-WEB HEADLESS TRANSACTIONS | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 19194293 | IMAGE GENERATION BASED ON TRACKED 3D SCANNING | RICHER, AARON M | — |
| 19056968 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COOKIE PROCESSING OPTIMIZATION | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | — |
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18950895 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED MEDIA | PATEL, JITESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 2 |
| 2659 | 2 |
| 3689 | 2 |
| 2194 | 2 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2446 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 2113 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19275588 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC QUERY-DEPENDENT WEIGHTING OF EMBEDDINGS IN HYBRID SEARCH | ARJOMANDI, NOOSHA | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19240894 | ALLOCATING AND DEPLOYING DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE RESOURCES FOR VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION USING REDUNDANCY POLICY | KO, CHAE M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19234547 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WORKFLOW ATTESTATION | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19232084 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROSS-WEB HEADLESS TRANSACTIONS | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19194293 | IMAGE GENERATION BASED ON TRACKED 3D SCANNING | RICHER, AARON M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19056968 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COOKIE PROCESSING OPTIMIZATION | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | COBB, MICHAEL J | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18950895 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED MEDIA | PATEL, JITESH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18909025 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING COMPOSITE IMAGES | LHYMN, SARAH | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18906629 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTIONS | WILDER, ANDREW H | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18893296 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPILLOVER FROM COOKIE TO DATABASE | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | 2446 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18785051 | Computer System, Computer-Implemented Method, And Computer Readable Media For Selecting Functions To Prompt A Large Language Model (LLM) | ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A | 2659 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18749082 | SECURE PIN ENTRY VIA MOBILE DEVICE | BAIRD, EDWARD J | 3692 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18744792 | CLASSIFICATION USING A GRAMMAR-CONSTRAINED GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL | HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS | 2659 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18738705 | Computer System, Computer-Implemented Method, and Computer Readable Media For Error Handling When Prompting A Large Language Model (LLM) | LOTTICH, JOSHUA P | 2113 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18734801 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROOF OF LOCATION PRIOR TO ACTION PERMISSION | GERGISO, TECHANE | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18650161 | SCHEMA-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR REQUEST PROCESSING | LEE, ADAM | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18648949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT IMAGE RECOMMENDATIONS | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18633654 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE SERVICES | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18443600 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION OF WORKFLOWS | TRUONG, DANIEL NHU | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18444462 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED CONTEXT MONITORING | HAILU, TADESSE | 2174 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18436474 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO LATENCY IN OUTPUT FROM A GENERATIVE MODEL | JABLON, ASHER H. | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18515913 | EMBEDDING-BASED SEARCH OF AN ITEM STORE | LADONI, AHOORA | 3689 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18513881 | System And Method For Determining Application Programming Interface (API) Version Compatibility And Related API Upgrade Process | CHEN, ZHI | 2196 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18354908 | NOTIFICATION MESSAGES GENERATED BY A GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL | KE, PENG | 2194 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18355247 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY IMPROVING CLASSIFICATION MODELS FOR MULTI-ATTRIBUTE CLASSIFICATION | PHILLIPS, III, ALBERT M | 2159 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18315752 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND USING A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR DETERMINING THE SIMILARITY OF ENTITIES | LEE, TSU-CHANG | 2123 | §112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 17814360 | RESOURCE LIMIT(S) FOR EXECUTION OF AN EXECUTABLE PROGRAM ON AN EXECUTION PLATFORM BASED ON AN ATTRIBUTE(S) OF AN INPUT(S) ON WHICH THE EXECUTABLE PROGRAM IS EXECUTED | MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT | 2198 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17814372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING BENCHMARKING TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN EXECUTABLE PROGRAM WILL SATISFY ONE OR MORE PERFORMANCE-BASED CRITERIA FOR EXECUTION ON AN EXECUTION PLATFORM | AMIN, MUSTAFA A | 2194 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17847867 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONSIVE AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT | SONNERS, SCOTT E | 2613 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
| 17742566 | PRIVACY ENHANCED SENSOR ACCESS | SONG, HEE K | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
| 17708895 | SEARCH NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING DYNAMIC GRAPH BASED ON PRODUCT CATALOGUE AND STOCK LEVELS | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 3689 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2022 |
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