Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
23 pending office actions • 9 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 149 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ciena Corporation currently faces 23 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are handled by 21 distinct examiners across 9 distinct art units. The concentration of 23 actions within 9 distinct art units suggests a focused technological scope despite the number of individual examiners involved.
LI, SHI K is the busiest examiner, with a busiest examiner pending count of 2. With 21 distinct examiners for 23 actions, the workload is spread widely, meaning the examiners are reviewing a variety of applications. This distribution requires the company to adapt to many different individual examiner styles within the Communications sector.
The ratio of 23 pending office actions to 9 distinct art units indicates that art units are managing multiple cases for the company. This allows for some level of strategic consistency at the art unit level, even if the 21 distinct examiners present a variety of individual perspectives. Practitioners should monitor the 9 distinct art units for broader trends that might affect the 23 pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (9%) |
| §103 only | 8 (35%) |
| §112 only | 2 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (48%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, SHI K | 2 | 73.3% | +4.2% |
| BUI, HUNG S | 2 | 87.4% | +10.1% |
| GORTAYO, DANGELINO N | 1 | 78.6% | +29.6% |
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.5% |
| HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 1 | 9.8% | +7.0% |
| SHEPPERD, ERIC W | 1 | 77.8% | +34.4% |
| CROCKETT, RYAN M | 1 | 78.8% | +5.4% |
| WOLF, DARREN E | 1 | 85.0% | +15.2% |
| NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 1 | 67.5% | +37.9% |
| WOLDEKIDAN, HIBRET ASNAKE | 1 | 86.0% | +13.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18928318 | In-service measurements of nonlinear interference in an optical network | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18492975 | Extended shortest path first computation for anycast prefix segments | MIAN, OMER S | 25d overdue |
| 18301753 | Cable parking system for a network element and method thereof | DANG, HUNG Q | 4d overdue |
| 19025184 | Systems and Methods for Tracking, Predicting, and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats in Networks | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3d overdue |
| 18800509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 62d |
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 19018068 | Automatically encrypting sensitive data in a distributed microservice framework | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | — |
| 18797868 | Micro-LED/PD arrangements and selection in an optical interconnect over fiber cable having multiple fiber cores | WOLDEKIDAN, HIBRET ASNAKE | — |
| 18659341 | Integrated PON chassis architecture for data center networks | BUI, HUNG S | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 62d |
| 19294941 | GENERATIVE AI-BASED TENANCY CONTROL PLANE OPERATOR COACH FOR KUBERNETES CLUSTER | GORTAYO, DANGELINO N | — |
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 19018068 | Automatically encrypting sensitive data in a distributed microservice framework | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | — |
| 18928318 | In-service measurements of nonlinear interference in an optical network | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18797868 | Micro-LED/PD arrangements and selection in an optical interconnect over fiber cable having multiple fiber cores | WOLDEKIDAN, HIBRET ASNAKE | — |
| 18659341 | Integrated PON chassis architecture for data center networks | BUI, HUNG S | — |
| 18233929 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING SHELF AND CIRCUIT CARD ASSEMBLIES | BUI, HUNG S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2635 | 4 |
| 2841 | 3 |
| 2874 | 2 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2461 | 1 |
| 2411 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19294941 | GENERATIVE AI-BASED TENANCY CONTROL PLANE OPERATOR COACH FOR KUBERNETES CLUSTER | GORTAYO, DANGELINO N | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19025184 | Systems and Methods for Tracking, Predicting, and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats in Networks | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19018068 | Automatically encrypting sensitive data in a distributed microservice framework | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | 2492 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18950809 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING OPTICAL POWER SUPPLIES | CROCKETT, RYAN M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18928318 | In-service measurements of nonlinear interference in an optical network | WOLF, DARREN E | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18854832 | G.8032 with optical bypass | LI, SHI K | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18800509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 2447 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18797868 | Micro-LED/PD arrangements and selection in an optical interconnect over fiber cable having multiple fiber cores | WOLDEKIDAN, HIBRET ASNAKE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18659341 | Integrated PON chassis architecture for data center networks | BUI, HUNG S | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18651241 | Section-based chunking technique for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Large Language Models (LLMs) | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18643351 | TENANCY CONTROL PLANE FOR SAAS APPLICATIONS | RASHID, WISSAM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18638832 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE WORKLOADS AND OUTPUTS IN RESPECT OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM GRAPHS | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18442663 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING PLUGGABLE MODULES | BELLO, AGUSTIN | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18526129 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SHORT STRUCTURES FOR BACKDRILL VALIDATION | KIK, PHALLAKA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18492975 | Extended shortest path first computation for anycast prefix segments | MIAN, OMER S | 2461 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18549666 | Integrated C+L band ROADM architecture | LI, SHI K | 2635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18233929 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING SHELF AND CIRCUIT CARD ASSEMBLIES | BUI, HUNG S | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18327162 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A HEALTH AUDIT ON A CURRENT WORKING ROUTE IN LAYER ZERO CONTROL PLANE NETWORKS | MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO | 2635 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18301699 | Signaling Service SID Transposition Capability in SRv6 Networks | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 2411 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 18301753 | Cable parking system for a network element and method thereof | DANG, HUNG Q | 2841 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 18127494 | HIGH-CAPACITY OPTICAL INPUT/OUTPUT FOR DATA PROCESSORS | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18117343 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING PLUGGABLE MODULES | TRAN, HOANG Q | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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