Defendant

Shell Information Technology International, BV

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
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Top venue
E.D. Texas Judge
1 case

Company profile

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Shell Information Technology International B.V. ("Shell IT") is a Besloten Vennootschap registered in the Netherlands (Carel van Bylandtlaan 30, The Hague; company no. 27146204), with a U.S. operational address at 150 N. Dairy Ashford, Houston, Texas. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc (NYSE/LSE: SHEL) and is not separately publicly traded; no standalone revenue or market-cap figures are disclosed. Third-party directories estimate headcount in the 1,000–5,000 band, which is unverified.

Shell IT is the internal IT services arm for Shell's global businesses rather than an external product vendor. Descriptions from Shell's own job postings and vendor case studies show it delivers software and infrastructure for aviation, fuel, bitumen, chemicals, marine, lubricants and trading functions, plus high-performance computing, subsurface/geoscience data management and cloud operations supporting exploration and production. It is an operating company, not a patent-holding shell.

Litigation posture: The tracked data show Shell IT as a defendant in one case and as plaintiff in none — the profile of an operating company defending against assertions rather than a non-practicing entity. The single tracked suit sits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas before Judge Rodney Gilstrap, a venue widely noted as plaintiff-friendly.

Notable case: RFCyber Corp. v. Shell Information Technology International, B.V., No. 2:24-cv-00549 (E.D. Tex., filed July 18, 2024), naming Shell IT and Equilon Enterprises LLC (d/b/a Shell Oil Products US). RFCyber, identified elsewhere in reporting and litigation analysis as a patent-assertion entity, asserted U.S. Patent No. 8,448,855, covering NFC/contactless "e-purse" mobile payment methods, against the Shell App's contactless payment functionality. The case was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice in 2025, so no merits ruling issued. It was part of a broader RFCyber campaign filed the same month against Costco, Kroger, Starbucks, Walmart and Volkswagen over contactless payment technology.