Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rowand LLP-Shopify focuses on Communications with 664 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 88.81 percent. It averages 3.25 office actions per allowance, indicating the frequency of examiner communication before an allowance is secured.
There are 5 pending office actions currently. The 88.81 percent allowance rate is based on the 664 career applications. The 3.25 average office actions per allowance provides a metric for the typical number of examiner responses required to reach an allowance. This data set offers a precise look at the firm's performance in the communications sector.
The 664 career applications provide a robust data set for evaluating the firm's 88.81 percent allowance rate. The 5 pending office actions show a focused current docket. Practitioners can use the average office actions per allowance to benchmark the expected effort and duration for applications in this 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 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.7% | +36.2% |
| LHYMN, SARAH | 1 | 65.9% | +15.0% |
| LEE, ADAM | 1 | 84.1% | +61.0% |
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
| TRUONG, DANIEL NHU | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18909025 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING COMPOSITE IMAGES | LHYMN, SARAH | — |
| 18650161 | SCHEMA-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR REQUEST PROCESSING | LEE, ADAM | — |
| 18633654 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE SERVICES | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Shopify | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19008785 | AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED DYNAMIC PRODUCT PRESENTATION | Shopify Inc. | COBB, MICHAEL J | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 | |
| 18909025 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING COMPOSITE IMAGES | Shopify Inc. | LHYMN, SARAH | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18650161 | SCHEMA-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR REQUEST PROCESSING | Shopify Inc. | LEE, ADAM | §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 |
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