Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Guntin & Gust, PLC - Ciena

5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=104 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

100.0%
Allowance Rate
n=104
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=104
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=55
-0.55σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=55
854 days
Time to Allowance
n=55
+0.0pp
Interview Lift
n=104
34.6%
RCE Rate
n=104
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=104

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=1 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)
71.1%
§103 Overcome
n=45
§112 Overcome
n=4 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

H04L, H04B, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
51%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=104
0
Practitioners
n=104
Apps / Practitioner
n=104 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
40% of docket
2
Communications
40% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM 1 85.0% +17.6%
ALI, SYED 1 82.5% +59.4%
TAYLOR, JOSHUA D 1 59.1% +31.3%
ISMAIL, OMAR S 1 91.4% +9.9%
MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO 1 76.0% +14.8%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18419810 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DISCOVER CANDIDATE PTP CLOCK SOURCE(S) OVER IP/MPLS NETWORK ALI, SYED 6d
18960609 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULATING POWER SUPPLIED BY A LOCAL OSCILLATOR SOURCE IN AN OPTICAL MODEM SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM
18474495 INTEGRATED OPTICAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATOR ISMAIL, OMAR S

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
18419810 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DISCOVER CANDIDATE PTP CLOCK SOURCE(S) OVER IP/MPLS NETWORK ALI, SYED 6d
18327162 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A HEALTH AUDIT ON A CURRENT WORKING ROUTE IN LAYER ZERO CONTROL PLANE NETWORKS MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO 28d
18960609 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULATING POWER SUPPLIED BY A LOCAL OSCILLATOR SOURCE IN AN OPTICAL MODEM SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM
18482980 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN ACTIVE PATH INVENTORY VIA PATH SOURCING ALGORITHMS TAYLOR, JOSHUA D

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Ciena 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26341
24631
24261
28281
26351

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18960609 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULATING POWER SUPPLIED BY A LOCAL OSCILLATOR SOURCE IN AN OPTICAL MODEM Ciena Corporation SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM 2634 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18419810 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DISCOVER CANDIDATE PTP CLOCK SOURCE(S) OVER IP/MPLS NETWORK Ciena Corporation ALI, SYED 2463 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 23, 2024
18482980 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN ACTIVE PATH INVENTORY VIA PATH SOURCING ALGORITHMS Ciena Corporation TAYLOR, JOSHUA D 2426 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2023
18474495 INTEGRATED OPTICAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATOR Ciena Corporation ISMAIL, OMAR S 2828 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2023
18327162 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A HEALTH AUDIT ON A CURRENT WORKING ROUTE IN LAYER ZERO CONTROL PLANE NETWORKS Ciena Corporation MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO 2635 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 01, 2023

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