Examiner Shawn Doman has allowed 245 of 339 decided applications (72%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Shawn Doman's public record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 339 disposed applications, the examiner issued allowances in 245 cases, for an allowance rate of 72%. This rate reflects the share of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and excludes pending cases. The record represents the examiner's pooled history across their assigned art unit(s) and describes past dispositions without predicting outcomes in any individual application.
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Primarily examines program control and execution.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 192 decided applications with an interview and 147 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Shawn Doman has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated June 25, 2026. The overall allowance rate is total allowed divided by total decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across all art units — not an average of the per-art-unit rates; pending applications are excluded. Figures are rounded for display. Pooled sample: 399 applications.
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