Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rowand LLP-Shopify handles Communications matters and has 665 career applications. The profile records 8 pending office actions, giving clients a direct view of the current workload associated with this company-specific representation.
The resolved allowance rate is 88.44%, and the firm averages 3.25 office actions per allowance. Those figures describe both the rate at which resolved applications reached allowance and the amount of recorded office-action activity associated with an allowance. The communications focus makes the profile relevant to applicants assessing prosecution experience in that field.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | 1 | 91.4% | -12.9% |
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.9% | +35.5% |
| AGUILERA, TODD | 1 | 57.5% | +56.9% |
| LEE, ADAM | 1 | 83.8% | +61.5% |
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
| TRUONG, DANIEL NHU | 1 | — | — |
| SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 1 | 67.1% | +23.8% |
| GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 1 | 76.9% | +27.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEFERRED TOOL EXECUTION | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | — |
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18776667 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL DEBUGGING OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS | AGUILERA, TODD | — |
| 18650161 | SCHEMA-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR REQUEST PROCESSING | LEE, ADAM | — |
| 18633654 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE SERVICES | LAU, TUNG S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18776667 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL DEBUGGING OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS | AGUILERA, TODD | — |
| 18650161 | SCHEMA-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR REQUEST PROCESSING | LEE, ADAM | — |
| 18633654 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE SERVICES | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18501444 | KEYWORD EXTRACTION TO GENERATE SUBJECT LINES | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | — |
| 18315831 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING AR CONTENT | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Shopify | 8 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2457 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 2198 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19227665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEFERRED TOOL EXECUTION | Shopify Inc. | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | 2457 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | Shopify Inc. | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18776667 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL DEBUGGING OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS | Shopify Inc. | AGUILERA, TODD | 2192 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18650161 | SCHEMA-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR REQUEST PROCESSING | Shopify Inc. | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18633654 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE SERVICES | Shopify Inc. | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18443600 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION OF WORKFLOWS | Shopify Inc. | TRUONG, DANIEL NHU | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18501444 | KEYWORD EXTRACTION TO GENERATE SUBJECT LINES | Shopify Inc. | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18315831 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING AR CONTENT | Shopify Inc. | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial88.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Rowand Llp-Shopify were allowed, across 665 applications in USPTO records.
3.25 office actions per allowed application on average.
8 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 8 examiners in 8 art units.
