Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Rowand Llp-Shopify

5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1315 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.8%
Allowance Rate
n=1315
+0.63σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1315
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=815
-0.22σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=815
899 days
Time to Allowance
n=815
-4.5pp
Interview Lift
n=1315
43.5%
RCE Rate
n=1315
3.7%
Appeal Rate
n=1315

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

57.3%
§101 Overcome
n=335
71.2%
§102 Overcome
n=375
71.3%
§103 Overcome
n=760
70.0%
§112 Overcome
n=310

Specialization & Scale

G06Q, G06F, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
48%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1315
8
Practitioners
n=1315
164.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=1315

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

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
4
Communications
80% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAU, TUNG S 1 82.8% +14.4%
SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 1 66.8% +24.7%
GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER 1 80.0% +22.2%
MILIA, MARK R 1 58.6% +22.3%
CHU, DAVID H 1 78.3% +3.1%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18633654 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE SERVICES LAU, TUNG S
18315831 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING AR CONTENT GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER

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
18180566 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING TEXT WITH TONE OR DICTION CORRESPONDING TO STYLISTIC ATTRIBUTES OF IMAGES MILIA, MARK R 8d
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 Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Shopify 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28571
26541
26171
26811
26161

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18633654 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE SERVICES Shopify Inc. LAU, TUNG S 2857 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 12, 2024
18501444 KEYWORD EXTRACTION TO GENERATE SUBJECT LINES Shopify Inc. SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 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
18180566 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING TEXT WITH TONE OR DICTION CORRESPONDING TO STYLISTIC ATTRIBUTES OF IMAGES Shopify Inc. MILIA, MARK R 2681 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18145160 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TUNING AI-GENERATED IMAGES Shopify Inc. CHU, DAVID H 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022

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