Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guntin & Gust, PLC - CIENA handles Networking & Security matters, with 119 career applications and 6 pending office actions. Its resolved allowance rate is 100.0%, and the average number of office actions per allowance is 2.74.
The 100.0% resolved allowance rate describes the reported resolved matters, while the 2.74 action average indicates the prosecution activity associated with those allowances. The 6 pending office actions show continuing work within a 119-application record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.4% |
| OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 1 | 75.0% | +15.7% |
| NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 1 | 67.5% | +37.9% |
| KHANAL, SANDARVA | 1 | 68.3% | +13.0% |
| BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | 1 | 85.7% | +29.1% |
| KIK, PHALLAKA | 1 | 90.8% | +1.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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 |
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 18638832 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE WORKLOADS AND OUTPUTS IN RESPECT OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM GRAPHS | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | — |
| 18526129 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SHORT STRUCTURES FOR BACKDRILL VALIDATION | KIK, PHALLAKA | — |
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 5 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 |
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 18802495 | USING UNDERLAY TRANSPORT LINK PROTECTION TO PROTECT POINT TO MULTIPOINT TREES | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | — |
| 18751777 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEVERAGING A DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) RELAY AGENT (RA) TO OBTAIN ZERO-TOUCH PROVISIONING (ZTP) FAILURE INFORMATION | KHANAL, SANDARVA | — |
| 18638832 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE WORKLOADS AND OUTPUTS IN RESPECT OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM GRAPHS | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Ciena | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2472 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2453 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | Ciena Corporation | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18802495 | USING UNDERLAY TRANSPORT LINK PROTECTION TO PROTECT POINT TO MULTIPOINT TREES | Ciena Corporation | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 2472 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18800509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS | Ciena Corporation | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 2447 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18751777 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEVERAGING A DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) RELAY AGENT (RA) TO OBTAIN ZERO-TOUCH PROVISIONING (ZTP) FAILURE INFORMATION | Ciena Corporation | KHANAL, SANDARVA | 2453 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18638832 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE WORKLOADS AND OUTPUTS IN RESPECT OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM GRAPHS | Ciena Corporation | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | 2196 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18526129 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SHORT STRUCTURES FOR BACKDRILL VALIDATION | Ciena Corporation | KIK, PHALLAKA | 2851 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial100.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Guntin & Gust, PLC - Ciena were allowed, across 119 applications in USPTO records.
2.74 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
