Technology area: Networking & Security
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Okta Inc. is currently navigating 7 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. This portfolio involves 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating a varied and distributed prosecution environment. The use of 6 distinct art units for 7 actions suggests that the company's networking and security innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups, each with its own specific focus and examination standards.
SARKER, SANCHIT K is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 7 distinct examiners in total, the workload is distributed such that every action is being handled by a different individual. This lack of examiner concentration suggests that the company cannot easily leverage a single examiner's familiarity with its technology across the 7 pending office actions. Practitioners should be prepared for 7 different examiner styles and 6 different sets of art unit guidelines, requiring a highly individualized and adaptable approach to each of the company's patent filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.2% | +17.3% |
| SARKER, SANCHIT K | 1 | 78.6% | +46.0% |
| ALI, AFAQ | 1 | 89.0% | +10.3% |
| ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N | 1 | 79.2% | +3.3% |
| HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 1 | 76.2% | +24.3% |
| SAVENKOV, VADIM | 1 | 60.3% | +20.3% |
| DOAN, HUAN V | 1 | 80.5% | +41.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977293 | AUTOMATED CREATION OF TRUSTED NETWORK PERIMETER | ALI, AFAQ | 6d |
| 18633103 | PHISHING RESISTANT ENROLLMENT VIA AN OPERATING SYSTEM | DOAN, HUAN V | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791137 | EXTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 28d |
| 18791157 | RISK AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | SAVENKOV, VADIM | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977293 | AUTOMATED CREATION OF TRUSTED NETWORK PERIMETER | ALI, AFAQ | 6d |
| 18791137 | EXTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 28d |
| 19313518 | FINE-GRAINED AUTHORIZATION AS A SERVICE VIA RELATIONSHIP- BASED ACCESS CONTROL WITHIN A MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | — |
| 19282952 | TECHNIQUES FOR CREDENTIAL AND IDENTITY SYNCHRONIZATION | SARKER, SANCHIT K | — |
| 18791157 | RISK AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | SAVENKOV, VADIM | — |
| 18633103 | PHISHING RESISTANT ENROLLMENT VIA AN OPERATING SYSTEM | DOAN, HUAN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2499 | 2 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 2434 | 1 |
| 2441 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19313518 | FINE-GRAINED AUTHORIZATION AS A SERVICE VIA RELATIONSHIP- BASED ACCESS CONTROL WITHIN A MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | 2431 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19282952 | TECHNIQUES FOR CREDENTIAL AND IDENTITY SYNCHRONIZATION | SARKER, SANCHIT K | 2495 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 18977293 | AUTOMATED CREATION OF TRUSTED NETWORK PERIMETER | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18927659 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE AGENT HEALTH | ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N | 2441 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18791137 | EXTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 2499 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18791157 | RISK AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | SAVENKOV, VADIM | 2432 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18633103 | PHISHING RESISTANT ENROLLMENT VIA AN OPERATING SYSTEM | DOAN, HUAN V | 2499 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOkta Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Michael J Pyzocha has the most, with 1 of Okta Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
