Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fortinet Inc.

25 pending office actions • 18 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 122 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

1
Hard (4%)
24
Medium (96%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only22 (88%)
§102 only2 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
25
Information Tech
100% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SALEHI, HELAI 2 72.7% +32.2%
MAI, KEVIN S 1 29.1% +26.1%
TRUONG, LAN DAI T 1 91.1% +11.6%
DO, KHANG D 1 80.7% +45.0%
TURCHEN, JAMES R 1 82.2% +33.7%
VANG, MENG 1 77.5% +27.9%
SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 1 82.4% +13.0%
NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 1 81.9% +34.6%
MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 1 67.7% +27.3%
TANG, KAREN C 1 70.2% +24.6%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18898306 DETECTING PHISHING WEBPAGES VIA TEXTUAL ANALYSIS FROM SCREENSHOTS DO, KHANG D 71d overdue
18789875 ENDPOINT CLIENT APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION AND ACCESS CONTROL ON ZERO-TRUST NETWORKS TURCHEN, JAMES R 8d overdue
18401549 AUTOMOTIVE SECURITY CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 5d overdue
18427252 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SAFELY PROVIDE FILES AND SOFTWARE UPDATES WITH A CLOUD SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 50d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18902728 MITIGATION OF ROGUE WI-FI 6E COMPATIBLE ACCESS POINTS TRUONG, LAN DAI T 23d
18920701 EFFICACY SCORING METRIC FOR AN ACCESS CONTROL POLICY LIST MAI, KEVIN S 28d

Interview Candidates (11)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18898306 DETECTING PHISHING WEBPAGES VIA TEXTUAL ANALYSIS FROM SCREENSHOTS DO, KHANG D 71d overdue
18401570 TRANSPARENT PROXY MODE AUTHENTICATION IN DNS DDOS MITIGATION MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 19d overdue
18393121 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SD-WAN PERFORMANCE RULE FORMATION TANG, KAREN C 9d overdue
18789875 ENDPOINT CLIENT APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION AND ACCESS CONTROL ON ZERO-TRUST NETWORKS TURCHEN, JAMES R 8d overdue
18669162 METHODS FOR APPLYING GENERATIVE AI WITH SECRECY GUARANTEES VANG, MENG 8d overdue
18401549 AUTOMOTIVE SECURITY CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 5d overdue
18902728 MITIGATION OF ROGUE WI-FI 6E COMPATIBLE ACCESS POINTS TRUONG, LAN DAI T 23d
18621471 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE, SCALABLE ZERO TRUST SECURITY PROCESSING SALEHI, HELAI 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2492 3
2499 2
2433 2
2453 2
2432 2
2498 2
2444 1
2439 1
2443 1
2199 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18920701 EFFICACY SCORING METRIC FOR AN ACCESS CONTROL POLICY LIST MAI, KEVIN S 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18902728 MITIGATION OF ROGUE WI-FI 6E COMPATIBLE ACCESS POINTS TRUONG, LAN DAI T 2444 §101 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18898306 DETECTING PHISHING WEBPAGES VIA TEXTUAL ANALYSIS FROM SCREENSHOTS DO, KHANG D 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18789875 ENDPOINT CLIENT APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION AND ACCESS CONTROL ON ZERO-TRUST NETWORKS TURCHEN, JAMES R 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18744051 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE, SCALABLE ZERO TRUST SECURITY PROCESSING SALEHI, HELAI 2433 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 14, 2024
18669162 METHODS FOR APPLYING GENERATIVE AI WITH SECRECY GUARANTEES VANG, MENG 2443 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18621471 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE, SCALABLE ZERO TRUST SECURITY PROCESSING SALEHI, HELAI 2433 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18427252 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SAFELY PROVIDE FILES AND SOFTWARE UPDATES WITH A CLOUD SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 2453 §102 Final Rejection 50d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18401549 AUTOMOTIVE SECURITY CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 2199 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 31, 2023
18401570 TRANSPARENT PROXY MODE AUTHENTICATION IN DNS DDOS MITIGATION MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 2454 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Dec 31, 2023
18393121 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SD-WAN PERFORMANCE RULE FORMATION TANG, KAREN C 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18542268 ZTNA TOKEN BASED FORWARDING PATH GENERATION MECHANISM SARKER, SANCHIT K 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18542262 PROACTIVELY ASSIST ROAMING OF WI-FI 6E STATIONS WITH SMART-MANAGEMENT OF FAST BSS TRANSITION RIVAS, SALVADOR E 2413 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18240900 MANAGEMENT OF RAISED SECURITY EVENTS AT A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 2499 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2023
18238081 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARDWARE ASSISTED INITIAL AND SUBSEQUENT EVENT DETECTION NAJI, YOUNES 2445 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18208098 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGE PROCESSING USING SELECTIVELY SUSPENDED NETWORK SECURITY AHMED, MAHABUB S 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18311307 Identifying An Attack Surface Of A Cloud Deployment RONI, SYED A 2432 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18093604 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING FRAME LOSS IN A NETWORK PROCESSING SYSTEM DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH 2498 §103 Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18072230 CLOUD-BASED VIRTUAL EXTENSIBLE LOCAL AREA NETWORK (VXLAN) TUNNEL SWITCHING ACROSS ACCESS POINTS NGUYEN, VINH 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Nov 30, 2022
17957337 INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICE IDENTIFICATION USING TRAFFIC PATTERNS KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN 2492 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17888683 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING INSIDER ATTACKS ON A COMMUNICATION NETWORK KHADKA, AMIT 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022
17858990 Detecting Anomalous Behavior Using A Browser Extension RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR 2498 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2022
17837815 Monitoring a Cloud Environment SHAW, PETER C 2493 §102 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2022
17364691 ENFORCING JAVASCRIPT FOR MITB DETECTION HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 2491 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2021
16836753 PORTABLE, HARDWARE-BASED AUTHENTICATION CLIENT TO ENFORCE USER-TO-SITE NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL RESTRICTIONS DAVIS, ZACHARY A 2492 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 31, 2020

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