Technology area: Networking & Security
27 pending office actions • 21 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 110 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zscaler Inc. has 27 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters are handled by 27 distinct examiners across 21 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner dispersion and a narrower but still substantial concentration of assignments within some art units.
MCNALLY, MICHAEL S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that figure, so the principal coordination challenge is the breadth of individual examiner relationships rather than a dominant examiner concentration.
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 | 8 (30%) |
| §103 only | 10 (37%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 1 | 89.9% | +8.6% |
| KIM, HEE SOO | 1 | 78.9% | -0.5% |
| OTTO, ALAN | 1 | 66.8% | +17.7% |
| LEE, GIL H | 1 | 83.4% | +28.0% |
| HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | 1 | 90.5% | +6.4% |
| WANG, HARRIS C | 1 | 69.9% | +20.1% |
| ABYANEH, ALI S | 1 | 77.6% | +56.1% |
| GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 1 | 76.9% | +27.3% |
| CHEN, SHIN HON | 1 | 86.2% | +13.5% |
| WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 1 | 80.0% | +28.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19275873 | Zero Trust Policy Engine for Controlling Access to Network Applications | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | — |
| 19174342 | Cloud-Based Man-in-the-Middle Inspection of Encrypted Traffic | HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | — |
| 19055016 | Optimized Cloud-Based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | CHEN, SHIN HON | — |
| 19024667 | Systems and methods for intelligent machine learning-based malware detection | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17079768 | Utilizing Machine Learning to detect malicious Office documents | FARAMARZI, GITA | 46d overdue |
| 18739699 | Systems and methods for collecting and displaying business insights in a cloud-based system | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 30d |
| 19174458 | Statistical Network Application Security Policy Generation | LEE, GIL H | — |
| 19092159 | Determining Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Similarity Via Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | WANG, HARRIS C | — |
| 19070792 | Cloud-Based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
| 18973641 | Active Directory Security Enforcement and Threat Insights on Zero Trust Networks | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | — |
| 18915586 | Context aware Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant for troubleshooting network issues | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | — |
| 18915591 | Generative User Interfaces (UIs) for Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents | CORTES, HOWARD | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238954 | Multi-Tenant Cloud to Cloud Incident Routing | OTTO, ALAN | — |
| 19174458 | Statistical Network Application Security Policy Generation | LEE, GIL H | — |
| 19092159 | Determining Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Similarity Via Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | WANG, HARRIS C | — |
| 19070792 | Cloud-Based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
| 19061261 | Cloud-Based Browser Isolation with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Forking | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — |
| 19055016 | Optimized Cloud-Based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | CHEN, SHIN HON | — |
| 19024667 | Systems and methods for intelligent machine learning-based malware detection | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2443 | 2 |
| 2454 | 2 |
| 2437 | 2 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2496 | 2 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| 2439 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19275873 | Zero Trust Policy Engine for Controlling Access to Network Applications | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 2432 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19239023 | Integrating Deception-Based Attack Intelligence with External Attack Surface Management (EASM) Data | KIM, HEE SOO | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19238954 | Multi-Tenant Cloud to Cloud Incident Routing | OTTO, ALAN | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19174458 | Statistical Network Application Security Policy Generation | LEE, GIL H | 2454 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19174342 | Cloud-Based Man-in-the-Middle Inspection of Encrypted Traffic | HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19092159 | Determining Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Similarity Via Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | WANG, HARRIS C | 2439 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19070792 | Cloud-Based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19061261 | Cloud-Based Browser Isolation with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Forking | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19055016 | Optimized Cloud-Based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | CHEN, SHIN HON | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19024667 | Systems and methods for intelligent machine learning-based malware detection | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18973641 | Active Directory Security Enforcement and Threat Insights on Zero Trust Networks | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 2454 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18936148 | Pattern similarity measures to quantify uncertainty in malware classification | DEBNATH, SUMAN | 2495 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18915586 | Context aware Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant for troubleshooting network issues | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 2693 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18915591 | Generative User Interfaces (UIs) for Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents | CORTES, HOWARD | 2118 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18901192 | Systems and methods for determining similarity between Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) based on Graphical Similarity Pixel Comparison | HAIDER, SYED | 2633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18889931 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent playbook utilization and management | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18884279 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent evaluation framework | GUNN, JEREMY L | 3624 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18745434 | Systems and methods for a cloud environment configuration Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant using Large Language Models (LLMs) | GARNER, CASEY R | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18739699 | Systems and methods for collecting and displaying business insights in a cloud-based system | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 3624 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18640582 | Next generation Artificial intelligence agents | PHUNG, QUOC LY PHU | 2143 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18417534 | Hyper-customized customer defined machine learning models | CHANG, TOM Y | 2455 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18354883 | Systems and methods for policy-based distributed packet capture | JAKOVAC, RYAN J | 2445 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18160725 | Multi-tenant cloud-based firewall systems and methods | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 2499 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17974901 | Context Aware Client Firewall for Mobile Devices in Cloud Security Systems | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 2437 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17874896 | Contextual relationship graph based on user's network transaction patterns for investigating attacks | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 2496 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17509154 | Identity intelligence in cloud-based services | HENNING, MATTHEW T | 2491 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
| 17079768 | Utilizing Machine Learning to detect malicious Office documents | FARAMARZI, GITA | 2496 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialZscaler Inc. has 27 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 21 art units and 27 examiners.
Michael S Mcnally has the most, with 1 of Zscaler Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
