Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Palo Alto Networks Inc.

52 pending office actions • 34 art units • 49 examiners • 0 of 52 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 155 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

52
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
24
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 49 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

25
Overdue
2
Due this week
13
Due this month
6
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 49 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (25)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (13)Due ≤ 60 days (6)Due later (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.

3
Hard (6%)
47
Medium (90%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (6%)
§103 only45 (87%)
§102 only2 (4%)
No statute on record2 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
48
Information Tech
92% of docket
3
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
2% 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.

520 h
Manual time on pending OAs
104 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
182 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 3 89.4% +12.6%
ALI, AFAQ 2 90.2% +12.0%
ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 1 80.5% +16.9%
LEE, MICHAEL M 1 83.5% +43.2%
OWYANG, MICHELLE N 1 76.0% +29.5%
LITTLE, VANCE M 1 83.5% +24.9%
WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L 1 68.5% +19.0%
CHOU, ALAN S 1 75.3% +13.7%
TRAN, JIMMY H 1 79.6% +16.8%
JOO, JOSHUA 1 78.2% +23.5%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18931476 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING UNKNOWN PACKERS LITTLE, VANCE M 30d overdue
18229062 ADVANCED THREAT PREVENTION ALI, AFAQ 4d overdue
17862877 SEQUENTIAL DUAL MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR EFFECTIVE CLOUD DETECTION ENGINES ALI, AFAQ 3d overdue
18425625 CONTEXT-BASED POLICY MAPPING FOR SECURITY COMPLIANCE WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 22d
18961594 Malicious C&C channel to fixed IP detection based on packet volume LEE, MICHAEL M 27d
18592351 AUDITED, CLIENTLESS, JUST IN TIME ACCESS TO PROTECTED RESOURCES TO ENHANCE SECURITY WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 30d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18533943 SECURITY RULE CONVERSION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 28d
18826659 NETWORK PATH HEALTH SCORING BASED ON LOAD BINNED LATENCY DATA CHOU, ALAN S 62d
17737787 Anomaly Detection for Cloud Computing Platforms VANG, MENG

Interview Candidates (13)

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
18931476 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING UNKNOWN PACKERS LITTLE, VANCE M 30d overdue
18784438 PERMANENT IDENTIFIER BASED SECURITY FOR REMOTE UES IN MOBILE NETWORKS JOO, JOSHUA 24d overdue
18925278 MALWARE ANALYSIS THROUGH VIRTUAL MACHINE FORKING WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L 9d overdue
19067270 AUTO GENERATING BUILD TIME POLICIES FROM RUN TIME POLICIES FOR SHIFT LEFT SECURITY ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 5d overdue
18229062 ADVANCED THREAT PREVENTION ALI, AFAQ 4d overdue
17862877 SEQUENTIAL DUAL MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR EFFECTIVE CLOUD DETECTION ENGINES ALI, AFAQ 3d overdue
18940388 NATURAL LANGUAGE TO CUSTOMIZE DATA VISUALIZATION OWYANG, MICHELLE N 7d
18425625 CONTEXT-BASED POLICY MAPPING FOR SECURITY COMPLIANCE WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2434 7
2451 3
2443 3
2436 2
2445 2
2433 2
2449 2
2499 2
2457 2
2437 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19067270 AUTO GENERATING BUILD TIME POLICIES FROM RUN TIME POLICIES FOR SHIFT LEFT SECURITY ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 2163 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2025
18961594 Malicious C&C channel to fixed IP detection based on packet volume LEE, MICHAEL M 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18940388 NATURAL LANGUAGE TO CUSTOMIZE DATA VISUALIZATION OWYANG, MICHELLE N 2168 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18931476 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING UNKNOWN PACKERS LITTLE, VANCE M 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2024
18925278 MALWARE ANALYSIS THROUGH VIRTUAL MACHINE FORKING WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18826659 NETWORK PATH HEALTH SCORING BASED ON LOAD BINNED LATENCY DATA CHOU, ALAN S 2451 §101 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18786056 INTELLIGENT DNS LOAD BALANCING USING COMBINATION OF DYNAMIC DNAT POOL AND APPLICATION PROBING IN CONNECTOR BASED SOLUTION FOR PRIVATE APPLICATION ACCESS TRAN, JIMMY H 2451 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jul 26, 2024
18784438 PERMANENT IDENTIFIER BASED SECURITY FOR REMOTE UES IN MOBILE NETWORKS JOO, JOSHUA 2445 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18773921 ZERO SHOT DETECTION OF LLM GENERATED PHISHING EMAILS LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18774568 MACHINE LEARNING PIPELINE FOR DETECTING ZERO-DAY PHISHING KIT SOURCE CODES ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18759092 ROOT DOMAIN BENIGNITY EVALUATION SHIN, KYUNG H 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18751718 INLINE DETECTION OF PROMPT INDUCED GENERATIVE AI APPLICATION DATA LEAKAGE HOANG, HIEU T 2449 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2024
18680876 VISCAD: VISUAL-GUIDED CAMPAIGN AUTO-DISCOVERY HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18665654 BROWSER ISOLATION OSMAN, RAMY M 2457 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending May 16, 2024
18656645 MAINTAINING STABLE UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR VERDICTS WITH INTELLIGENT RECRAWLING WORKU, SARON MATTHEWOS 2408 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 07, 2024
18648539 UNSTRUCTURED DATA EXTRACTION WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR QUERY RESOLUTION LOWEN, NICHOLAS DANIEL 2653 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18649259 DEEP LEARNING IN A DATA PLANE ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD 2431 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18644580 MITIGATING PHISHING ATTEMPTS TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 2407 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18643923 HEIDI: ML ON HYPERVISOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS DATA FOR MALWARE CLASSIFICATION RAHIM, MONJUR 2436 Other Final Rejection 39d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18621872 GRAMMAR POWERED RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION FOR DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18614920 USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION FOR WEB APPLICATIONS WITH RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE 2156 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18598830 NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERY TO DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DATABASE QUERY CONVERSION WITH LANGUAGE MODELS GMAHL, NAVNEET K 2166 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18592351 AUDITED, CLIENTLESS, JUST IN TIME ACCESS TO PROTECTED RESOURCES TO ENHANCE SECURITY WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 2434 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18588860 TWO-STAGE ANOMALOUS DEVICE DETECTION ANYAN, BARBARA BURGESS 2457 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2024
18432878 INTERWORKING OF STUN AND ALG MCBETH, WILLIAM C 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 05, 2024
18429166 APPLICATION ACCESS ANALYZER TRAN, NAM T 2455 §103 Final Rejection 78d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18429198 SECURITY POLICY ANALYSIS HAILU, TESHOME 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18429191 SECURITY POLICY ANALYSIS ZOUBAIR, NOURA 2434 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18425625 CONTEXT-BASED POLICY MAPPING FOR SECURITY COMPLIANCE WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 2434 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18419970 COMBINED INLINE CACHE PURGING AND PERIODIC HARD PURGING IN A CACHE SERVER HLAING, SOE MIN 2451 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2024
18535122 THREAT INTELLIGENCE DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR INTERFACING WITH A PROPRIETARY THREAT INTELLIGENCE DATABASE SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 2659 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
18533943 SECURITY RULE CONVERSION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 2434 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18530458 Managing Cloud-Based Networks GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2023
18525342 INTELLIGENT SECURITY FOR ZERO TRUST IN MOBILE NETWORKS WITH SECURITY PLATFORMS USING A PACKET FORWARDING CONTROL PROTOCOL HERZOG, MADHURI R 2438 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18499256 Security alert prioritization for cloud-based resources PARTHASARATHY, PRAMILA 2409 §102 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 01, 2023
18487087 DATA DEPENDENT RESTRICTIONS JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Oct 15, 2023
18482519 BINARY FILE MALWARE DETECTION WITH STRUCTURE AWARE MACHINE LEARNING PATEL, HARESH N 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18468962 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED FILTERING OF FALSE POSITIVE PATTERN MATCHES FOR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2023
18229062 ADVANCED THREAT PREVENTION ALI, AFAQ 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2023
18228397 ASSET SECURITY AND RISK POSTURE VISUALIZATION BENGZON, GREG C 2444 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18227817 DETECTING FRAUDULENT E-COMMERCE WEBSITES BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18355486 KERNEL SPACE FEATURE GENERATION FOR USER SPACE MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC DETECTION TRUONG, THONG P 2433 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18324219 DATA SECURITY RISK POSTURE VU, TAYLOR P 2437 §103 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending May 26, 2023
18072452 DEPENDENCY EMULATION FOR EXECUTABLE SAMPLES POPHAM, JEFFREY D 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 30, 2022
18052140 CONTRASTIVE CREDIBILITY PROPAGATION FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING SHALU, ZELALEM W 2145 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Nov 02, 2022
17877199 METHOD TO CLASSIFY COMPLIANCE PROTOCOLS FOR SAAS APPS BASED ON WEB PAGE CONTENT NGUYEN, LOAN T 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 29, 2022
17862877 SEQUENTIAL DUAL MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR EFFECTIVE CLOUD DETECTION ENGINES ALI, AFAQ 2434 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2022
17826766 IDENTIFY AND BLOCK DOMAINS USED FOR NXNS-BASED DDOS ATTACK MAAZOUZ, GHIZLANE 2499 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 27, 2022
17737787 Anomaly Detection for Cloud Computing Platforms VANG, MENG 2443 §101 Final Rejection Pending May 05, 2022
17649704 SECURE MULTI-ENTERPRISE WIRELESS NETWORK DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2022
17127876 Managing Application Access Controls And Routing In Cloud Computing Platforms TODD, GREGORY G 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2020
15948931 IoT DEVICE SECURITY SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 09, 2018

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