Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Zscaler Inc.

13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 98 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (92%)
§102 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
12
Information Tech
92% of docket
1
Communications
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 2 90.7% +6.6%
WILSON, YOLANDA L 1 84.0% +5.8%
SARKER, SANCHIT K 1 78.3% +48.4%
YOON, ALEXANDER J 1 57.4% +18.0%
KIM, HEE SOO 1 79.1% +0.0%
MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 1 100.0% +0.0%
CHOI, EUNSOOK 1 90.0% +7.6%
CHANG, TOM Y 1 53.4% +20.2%
ZHENG, BIN QING 1 64.1% +61.5%
FEITL, LEAH M 1 25.0% +7.0%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18640560 Detecting and Fixing Collisions in Artificial Intelligence Agents MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 8d
18419441 Zero-trust connectivity for Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) enabled equipment CHOI, EUNSOOK 15d
18926986 Encrypted traffic inspection in a cloud-based security system HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 21d
18948775 Zero Trust Network Branch HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 26d
19008999 Disaster recovery for private application access continuity WILSON, YOLANDA L 70d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17341513 Machine learning to determine domain reputation, content classification, phishing sites, and command and control sites FEITL, LEAH M 27d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18924682 Vulnerabilities and Protections in Large Language Models SARKER, SANCHIT K 9d overdue
18417534 Hyper-customized customer defined machine learning models CHANG, TOM Y 9d overdue
18346411 Application server protection by maintaining cross-session inspection context ZHENG, BIN QING 9d
18914829 Memory surge protection for application segmentation models YOON, ALEXANDER J 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2433 2
2113 1
2495 1
2135 1
2443 1
2655 1
2467 1
2455 1
2499 1
2147 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19008999 Disaster recovery for private application access continuity WILSON, YOLANDA L 2113 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 03, 2025
18948775 Zero Trust Network Branch HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18926986 Encrypted traffic inspection in a cloud-based security system HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 25, 2024
18924682 Vulnerabilities and Protections in Large Language Models SARKER, SANCHIT K 2495 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2024
18914829 Memory surge protection for application segmentation models YOON, ALEXANDER J 2135 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Oct 14, 2024
18910792 Kill-chain reconstruction KIM, HEE SOO 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 09, 2024
18640560 Detecting and Fixing Collisions in Artificial Intelligence Agents MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 19, 2024
18419441 Zero-trust connectivity for Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) enabled equipment CHOI, EUNSOOK 2467 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18417534 Hyper-customized customer defined machine learning models CHANG, TOM Y 2455 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18346411 Application server protection by maintaining cross-session inspection context ZHENG, BIN QING 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 03, 2023
17341513 Machine learning to determine domain reputation, content classification, phishing sites, and command and control sites FEITL, LEAH M 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 08, 2021
17131908 Administrative policy override in microsegmentation POPHAM, JEFFREY D 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 281d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2020
17079768 Utilizing Machine Learning to detect malicious Office documents FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2020

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