Examiner Shane E Douglas
Examiner Shane E Douglas appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 0.0% and their rejection profile is dominated by ยง103.
Difficulty vs AU
Very Hard
Difficulty vs Group
Very Hard
Difficulty vs TC
Very Hard
Difficulty vs USPTO
Very Hard
Average OA / Grant
N/A
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Examiner Details
- Observed Examiner Years
- 3 years (2024-2026)
- Phone
- (703) 756-1417
- Predicted Supervisor
- Christian Chace
- Supervisor Phone
- (571) 272-4190
- Tech Center
- 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
- Group
- 3660 - VCaR - Robot Control, Vehicle Navigation and Data Processing: Vehicles and Relative Location
Metrics
- Applications Evaluated
- 56
- Granted Applications
- 0
- Non-Granted Applications
- 56
- Avg OA / Grant
- N/A
- Last OA Observed
- March 2026 (3 months ago)
- Art Units Seen
- 3665
Context Comparison
| Scope | Examiners | Lifetime Grant Ratio | Avg OA / Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Examiner | 1 | 0.0% | N/A |
| Art Unit | 50 | 44.6% | 2.00 |
| Group | 457 | 55.5% | 1.86 |
| Tech Center | 2,337 | 48.0% | 2.11 |
| USPTO | 16,116 | 54.8% | 1.98 |
Grant Timeline
Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.
| Year | Applications | Granted | Grant Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| No observed data before 2024; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset. | |||
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 40 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2026 | 15 | 0 | 0.0% |
0 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.
Rejection Timeline
| OA # | Office Actions | § 101 Percentage | § 102 Percentage | § 103 Percentage | § 112 Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 | 1.8% | 8.9% | 87.5% | 0.0% |
| 2 | 37 | 5.4% | 2.7% | 89.2% | 0.0% |
| 3 | 10 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% |
| 4 | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% |
§ 101 Yearly Trend
2024: AI Examples
2025: Aug. Memo
Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.