Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Ciena Corporation

29 pending office actions • 15 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 145 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

29
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

14
Hard (48%)
13
Medium (45%)
2
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (7%)
§103 only12 (41%)
§102 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting only2 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)12 (41%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
8
Information Tech
28% of docket
7
Communications
24% of docket
7
Semiconductors
24% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
3% of docket
6
Business / Other
21% 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.

290 h
Manual time on pending OAs
58 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
102 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BELLO, AGUSTIN 2 75.4% +11.9%
GORTAYO, DANGELINO N 1 78.7% +29.4%
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1 85.7% +13.6%
HASBROUCK, MERRITT J 1 10.1% +7.5%
SHEPPERD, ERIC W 1 77.7% +34.4%
VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N 1 19.0% +0.0%
LEE, JAI M 1 77.2% +11.2%
BAE, JI H 1 82.1% +21.0%
NGUYEN, HAO HONG 1 67.6% +37.5%
AHMED, ATIQUE 1 80.6% +15.6%

Hard Cases (14)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17509111 Automatic suppression of non-actionable alarms with machine learning ROY, SANCHITA 45d 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
19043916 Segment Routing SRv6 S-BFD and ping replies having deterministic reply path MANIWANG, JOSEPH R
18989184 Optical Architectural Solution for Coherent Burst Mode Transmitter VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N
18934571 COMPACT HIGH FREQUENCY CLOCK GENERATION BAE, JI H
18769088 Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) with awareness of local protection AHMED, ATIQUE
18761837 In-situ polarization extinction ratio monitoring PEACE, RHONDA S

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18442663 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING PLUGGABLE MODULES BELLO, AGUSTIN 41d
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
19043916 Segment Routing SRv6 S-BFD and ping replies having deterministic reply path MANIWANG, JOSEPH R
19018068 Automatically encrypting sensitive data in a distributed microservice framework SHEPPERD, ERIC W
18952358 POLARIZATION-DIVERSITY OPTICAL POWER SUPPLY LEE, JAI M
18934571 COMPACT HIGH FREQUENCY CLOCK GENERATION BAE, JI H
18769088 Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) with awareness of local protection AHMED, ATIQUE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2874 4
2634 3
2635 3
2841 2
3695 1
2492 1
2176 1
2447 1
2657 1
2835 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19294941 GENERATIVE AI-BASED TENANCY CONTROL PLANE OPERATOR COACH FOR KUBERNETES CLUSTER GORTAYO, DANGELINO N §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2025
19043916 Segment Routing SRv6 S-BFD and ping replies having deterministic reply path MANIWANG, JOSEPH R §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 03, 2025
19025184 Systems and Methods for Tracking, Predicting, and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats in Networks HASBROUCK, MERRITT J 3695 §101§103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
19018068 Automatically encrypting sensitive data in a distributed microservice framework SHEPPERD, ERIC W 2492 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 13, 2025
18989184 Optical Architectural Solution for Coherent Burst Mode Transmitter VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N 2634 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18952358 POLARIZATION-DIVERSITY OPTICAL POWER SUPPLY LEE, JAI M DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 19, 2024
18934571 COMPACT HIGH FREQUENCY CLOCK GENERATION BAE, JI H 2176 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 01, 2024
18800509 SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS NGUYEN, HAO HONG 2447 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18769088 Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) with awareness of local protection AHMED, ATIQUE §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 10, 2024
18761837 In-situ polarization extinction ratio monitoring PEACE, RHONDA S 2874 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 02, 2024
18717645 Calibrating a Raman amplifier by maximizing gain and minimizing intermodulation effects CORS, NATHAN M 2634 DP Final Rejection Pending Jun 07, 2024
18659341 Integrated PON chassis architecture for data center networks BUI, HUNG S 2841 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2024
18659372 Maintaining signal integrity for high data rate optical connectors CAPUTO, LISA M 2874 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2024
18655534 Limiting the gain of a Raman amplifier upon fiber span recovery LIU, LI 2634 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 06, 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 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2024
18617845 ASSISTED PARTIAL TIMING SUPPORT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2024
18613262 Apparatus and method for managing temperature of a high-power pluggable optical module PAPE, ZACHARY 2835 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2024
18442663 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING PLUGGABLE MODULES BELLO, AGUSTIN 2635 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18422932 K-shortest paths computation in Segment Routing considering segment depth RASHID, ISHRAT 2459 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 25, 2024
18406984 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING PLUGGABLE MODULES BELLO, AGUSTIN 2635 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2024
18492975 Extended shortest path first computation for anycast prefix segments MIAN, OMER S 2461 §103 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
18304094 MANAGING RELATIVE THERMAL DRIFT OF CARRIER-MOUNTED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS CHIEM, DINH D 2874 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Apr 20, 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
18117343 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING PLUGGABLE MODULES TRAN, HOANG Q 2874 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 03, 2023
18111831 Constraint policy and scheduling for a workload orchestration system LIN, HSING CHUN 2195 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2023
17509111 Automatic suppression of non-actionable alarms with machine learning ROY, SANCHITA 2146 §103§112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2021
17382723 Multi-Level Time Series Forecaster BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2021

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