Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Fortinet Inc.

26 pending office actions • 19 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 115 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

26
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

11
Hard (42%)
11
Medium (42%)
3
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§101 + other2 (8%)
§103 only9 (35%)
§102 only2 (8%)
§112 only2 (8%)
Double-patenting only1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (31%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
19
Information Tech
73% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
7
Business / Other
27% 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.

260 h
Manual time on pending OAs
52 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
91 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BAROT, BHARAT 1 87.5% +8.0%
SHAW, BRIAN F 1 73.3% +16.9%
YANG, HAN 1 92.1% +11.6%
HABASHI, DANIEL MONIS S 1
JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 1 53.8% +21.6%
NGUYEN, CAROLINE HOANG-ANH 1
WHIPPLE, BRIAN P 1 86.3% +8.0%
BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 1
ABU ROUMI, MAHRAN Y 1 72.6% +33.5%
IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O 1 71.5% +19.0%

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
19092224 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC DATA REPRESENTING INSIDER ATTACKS YANG, HAN

Hard Cases (11)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17364691 ENFORCING JAVASCRIPT FOR MITB DETECTION HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 45d overdue
18401570 TRANSPARENT PROXY MODE AUTHENTICATION IN DNS DDOS MITIGATION MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 19d overdue
18789875 ENDPOINT CLIENT APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION AND ACCESS CONTROL ON ZERO-TRUST NETWORKS TURCHEN, JAMES R 8d overdue
18902728 MITIGATION OF ROGUE WI-FI 6E COMPATIBLE ACCESS POINTS TRUONG, LAN DAI T 23d
19084261 VULNERABILITY REMEDIATION RECOMMENDATION MECHANISM HABASHI, DANIEL MONIS S
19062490 ASSESSMENT OF RAISED SECURITY EVENTS AT AN APPLICATION NGUYEN, CAROLINE HOANG-ANH
19028797 DETERMINATION OF USER OPERATIONS AT A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WHIPPLE, BRIAN P
18756021 ACCELERATED DETECTION OF SPEAR PHISHING DURING EMAIL MALWARE DETECTION ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K

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
19182902 IDENTIFYING A CONTEXT OF A USER AUTHENTICATION SHAW, BRIAN F
19092224 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC DATA REPRESENTING INSIDER ATTACKS YANG, HAN
19069633 METHOD FOR DETECTING UNMANAGED CLOUD APPLICATIONS JOHNSON, AMY COHEN
18904540 AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION UNIT ADJUSTMENT ABU ROUMI, MAHRAN Y
18901455 IMPROVED GRANULARITY LEAST PRIVILEGE ACCESS MECHANISMS IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2432 2
4100 1
2434 1
2455 1
2494 1
2444 1
2439 1
2495 1
2454 1
2447 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19202594 ENHANCING INSIDER ATTACK DETECTION VIA IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH NON-DYNAMIC INFORMATION BAROT, BHARAT Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2025
19182902 IDENTIFYING A CONTEXT OF A USER AUTHENTICATION SHAW, BRIAN F 2432 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2025
19092224 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC DATA REPRESENTING INSIDER ATTACKS YANG, HAN DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2025
19084261 VULNERABILITY REMEDIATION RECOMMENDATION MECHANISM HABASHI, DANIEL MONIS S §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 19, 2025
19069633 METHOD FOR DETECTING UNMANAGED CLOUD APPLICATIONS JOHNSON, AMY COHEN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 04, 2025
19062490 ASSESSMENT OF RAISED SECURITY EVENTS AT AN APPLICATION NGUYEN, CAROLINE HOANG-ANH §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 25, 2025
19028797 DETERMINATION OF USER OPERATIONS AT A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WHIPPLE, BRIAN P 4100 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
18968748 AUTOMATED DETECTION OF WEBSITE IMPERSONATION AND PHISHING ATTEMPTS USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SIMILARITY SEARCH BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 2434 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 04, 2024
18904540 AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION UNIT ADJUSTMENT ABU ROUMI, MAHRAN Y 2455 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2024
18901455 IMPROVED GRANULARITY LEAST PRIVILEGE ACCESS MECHANISMS IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O 2494 §102 Final Rejection Pending Sep 30, 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
18894631 VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD USER INTERFACE FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2024
18789875 ENDPOINT CLIENT APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION AND ACCESS CONTROL ON ZERO-TRUST NETWORKS TURCHEN, JAMES R 2439 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18756021 ACCELERATED DETECTION OF SPEAR PHISHING DURING EMAIL MALWARE DETECTION ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K 2495 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 27, 2024
18401570 TRANSPARENT PROXY MODE AUTHENTICATION IN DNS DDOS MITIGATION MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 2454 §103§112 Non-Final OA 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
18375514 CROSS-PLATFORM NATIVE BROWSER ISOLATION DAILEY, THOMAS J 2458 §112Other Final Rejection Pending Sep 30, 2023
18375500 SMART BSS-COLORING TO OVERCOME CO-CHANNEL-INTERFERENCE (CCI) FOR WI-FI6 LALCHINTHANG, VANNEILIAN 2414 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 30, 2023
18324836 Offline Workflows In An Edge-Based Data Platform RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR 2498 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 26, 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
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
17859148 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURITY ENHANCED DOMAIN CATEGORIZATION AYALA, KEVIN ALEXIS 2496 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 07, 2022
17378616 Machine Learning Systems and Methods for Using an Orthogonality Heuristic to Identify an Ignored Labeling Target MAIDO, MAGGIE T 2129 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 16, 2021
17364691 ENFORCING JAVASCRIPT FOR MITB DETECTION HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 2491 §103§112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2021
17018976 INTELLIGENT VECTOR SELECTION BY IDENTIFYING HIGH MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL SKEPTICISM LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 2128 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2020
16227098 PROTECTION AGAINST OBSOLETE FILE FORMATS DAVIS, ZACHARY A 2492 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 20, 2018

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