Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Shell Oil Company

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STEIN, MICHELLE 2 44.2% +34.7%
SINGH, DAPINDER 1 82.3% +18.8%
MENON, KRISHNAN S 1 59.8% +11.8%
JONES JR., ROBERT STOCKTON 1 69.9% +22.8%
MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 1 71.4% +11.1%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18260961 AN ELECTRICALLY HEATED APPARATUS SINGH, DAPINDER 79d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18246544 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR GENERATING A REDUCED CHLORIDE STRIPPED FLUID FROM A HYDROPROCESSING EFFLUENT STEIN, MICHELLE 100d overdue
18004692 ANTI-AGEING ADDITIVES FOR BITUMEN JONES JR., ROBERT STOCKTON 97d overdue
17786230 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING ROCKET PROPELLANTS WITH ENHANCED CRYOGENIC COOLING, THERMAL STABILITY, AND THRUST EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 79d overdue
18247106 RECOVERY OF ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS STEIN, MICHELLE 14d
18253809 PROCESS FOR PRE-TREATING RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS MENON, KRISHNAN S 54d
18260961 AN ELECTRICALLY HEATED APPARATUS SINGH, DAPINDER 79d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1771 2
3762 1
1777 1
1762 1
1734 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18260961 AN ELECTRICALLY HEATED APPARATUS SINGH, DAPINDER 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18253809 PROCESS FOR PRE-TREATING RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS MENON, KRISHNAN S 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending May 22, 2023
18247106 RECOVERY OF ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS STEIN, MICHELLE 1771 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 29, 2023
18246544 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR GENERATING A REDUCED CHLORIDE STRIPPED FLUID FROM A HYDROPROCESSING EFFLUENT STEIN, MICHELLE 1771 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18004692 ANTI-AGEING ADDITIVES FOR BITUMEN JONES JR., ROBERT STOCKTON 1762 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2023
17786230 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING ROCKET PROPELLANTS WITH ENHANCED CRYOGENIC COOLING, THERMAL STABILITY, AND THRUST EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 1734 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022

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