Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Chevron Oronite Company LLC

11 pending office actions • 1 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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%)
6
Medium (55%)
1
Easy (9%)
4
Unknown (36%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (55%)
Double-patenting only1 (9%)
No statute on record4 (36%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

11
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MCAVOY, ELLEN M 3 72.7% +8.6%
OLADAPO, TAIWO 3 53.0% +11.3%
HINES, LATOSHA D 1 50.7% +22.6%
VASISTH, VISHAL V 1 72.3% +33.3%
CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C 1 72.9% +9.0%
GOLOBOY, JAMES C 1 63.5% +8.8%
TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1 74.1% +2.4%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19100085 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION FOR CORROSION CONTROL HINES, LATOSHA D 66d overdue
18557826 ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE BRANCHED COPOLYMERS USED AS VISCOSITY MODIFIERS OLADAPO, TAIWO 21d
17908462 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED OXIDATIVE PERFORMANCE COMPRISING ALKYLATED DIPHENYLAMINE ANTIOXIDANT AND SULFONATE DETERGENTS OLADAPO, TAIWO 27d
18994580 MARINE DIESEL CYLINDER LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITIONS VASISTH, VISHAL V 56d
18917804 BIMODAL COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS USEFUL AS OIL MODIFIERS AND LUBRICATING OILS COMPRISING THE SAME OLADAPO, TAIWO 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1771 11

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19100085 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION FOR CORROSION CONTROL HINES, LATOSHA D 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2025
18994580 MARINE DIESEL CYLINDER LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITIONS VASISTH, VISHAL V 1771 Other Final Rejection 56d Pending Jan 14, 2025
18873123 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION WITH VISCOSITY MODIFIER WITH LOW SHEAR STABILITY INDEX MCAVOY, ELLEN M 1771 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 09, 2024
18864474 LUBRICANT ADDITIVES MCAVOY, ELLEN M 1771 Other Final Rejection 12d Pending Nov 08, 2024
18864460 LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISPERSANTS MCAVOY, ELLEN M 1771 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 08, 2024
18917804 BIMODAL COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS USEFUL AS OIL MODIFIERS AND LUBRICATING OILS COMPRISING THE SAME OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 DP Final Rejection 84d Pending Oct 16, 2024
18840860 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITIONS CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 104d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2024
18567974 AMINE-BOOSTED DETERGENT GOLOBOY, JAMES C 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18557826 ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE BRANCHED COPOLYMERS USED AS VISCOSITY MODIFIERS OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 Other Final Rejection 21d Pending Oct 27, 2023
17908462 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED OXIDATIVE PERFORMANCE COMPRISING ALKYLATED DIPHENYLAMINE ANTIOXIDANT AND SULFONATE DETERGENTS OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 31, 2022
16917983 LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1771 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jul 01, 2020

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