Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG is managing 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners, showing a small amount of examiner overlap within the portfolio. The company's current applications are being reviewed across 5 distinct art units, indicating that their mechanical engineering work touches several different technical groups at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for Nordex is SEABE, JUSTIN D, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Since there are 11 pending office actions in total, the fact that they are spread across 9 distinct examiners means that most interactions are unique. The 5 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's technology is not concentrated in a single niche but is instead reviewed by multiple specialized divisions. This distribution requires the prosecution team to be familiar with the specific practices of 5 different art units while managing 9 different examiner relationships.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 only | 1 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEABE, JUSTIN D | 2 | 71.7% | +24.3% |
| RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 2 | 89.2% | +9.2% |
| STANEK, KELSEY L | 1 | 80.6% | +15.3% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| CLARK, RYAN C | 1 | 88.1% | +8.5% |
| ANSARI, AZAM A | 1 | 47.4% | +47.8% |
| RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | 1 | 83.6% | +13.3% |
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
| ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 1 | 82.9% | +17.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19267180 | GEARBOX SUPPORT ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE AND WIND TURBINE | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 19191924 | WIND TURBINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WIND TURBINE | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041744 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A RECYCLING PROCESS OF A WIND TURBINE COMPONENT | ANSARI, AZAM A | 13d |
| 19012530 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATOR, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM AND WIND TURBINE | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 27d |
| 19422282 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A HALF SHELL OF A WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE, CORE ELEMENT AND WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE | SEABE, JUSTIN D | — |
| 19382108 | A WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE WITH AN ELECTRICAL HEATING SYSTEM | SEABE, JUSTIN D | — |
| 19091664 | WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE HAVING A BASE PLATE WITH ACCESS OPENING | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 19112912 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WIND TURBINE, CONTROL SYSTEM AND WIND TURBINE | CLARK, RYAN C | — |
| 19040665 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A DEFECT IN AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT OF AN ENERGY INSTALLATION, GENERATOR UNIT, ENERGY INSTALLATION, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | — |
| 18747929 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING HEALTH STATUS OF A PITCH ENERGY STORAGE UNIT OF A WIND TURBINE, AND A PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041744 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A RECYCLING PROCESS OF A WIND TURBINE COMPONENT | ANSARI, AZAM A | 13d |
| 18937945 | BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A ROTATING COMPONENT OF A WIND TURBINE | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 30d |
| 19422282 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A HALF SHELL OF A WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE, CORE ELEMENT AND WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE | SEABE, JUSTIN D | — |
| 19382108 | A WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE WITH AN ELECTRICAL HEATING SYSTEM | SEABE, JUSTIN D | — |
| 19267180 | GEARBOX SUPPORT ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE AND WIND TURBINE | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 19091664 | WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE HAVING A BASE PLATE WITH ACCESS OPENING | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 19040665 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A DEFECT IN AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT OF AN ENERGY INSTALLATION, GENERATOR UNIT, ENERGY INSTALLATION, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | — |
| 18747929 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING HEALTH STATUS OF A PITCH ENERGY STORAGE UNIT OF A WIND TURBINE, AND A PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 6 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19422282 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A HALF SHELL OF A WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE, CORE ELEMENT AND WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE | SEABE, JUSTIN D | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19382108 | A WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE WITH AN ELECTRICAL HEATING SYSTEM | SEABE, JUSTIN D | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19267180 | GEARBOX SUPPORT ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE AND WIND TURBINE | STANEK, KELSEY L | 3741 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19191924 | WIND TURBINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WIND TURBINE | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19091664 | WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE HAVING A BASE PLATE WITH ACCESS OPENING | KIM, SANG K | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19112912 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WIND TURBINE, CONTROL SYSTEM AND WIND TURBINE | CLARK, RYAN C | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19041744 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A RECYCLING PROCESS OF A WIND TURBINE COMPONENT | ANSARI, AZAM A | 3621 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19040665 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A DEFECT IN AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT OF AN ENERGY INSTALLATION, GENERATOR UNIT, ENERGY INSTALLATION, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19012530 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATOR, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM AND WIND TURBINE | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18937945 | BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A ROTATING COMPONENT OF A WIND TURBINE | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18747929 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING HEALTH STATUS OF A PITCH ENERGY STORAGE UNIT OF A WIND TURBINE, AND A PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2858 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
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