Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
25% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
75% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ANSARI, AZAM A 1 47.6% +49.6%
RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C 1 88.8% +9.7%
BUSE, MARK KENNETH 1 77.2% +9.0%
SEABE, JUSTIN D 1 71.5% +24.6%
QUIGLEY, THOMAS K 1 73.0% +21.2%
PILKINGTON, JAMES 1 70.1% +35.7%
VERDIER, CHRISTOPHER M 1 73.3% +16.2%
GUGGER, SEAN A 1 64.5% +22.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19012530 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATOR, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM AND WIND TURBINE RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C 27d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18669260 BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE AND WIND TURBINE VERDIER, CHRISTOPHER M 38d overdue
19041744 METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A RECYCLING PROCESS OF A WIND TURBINE COMPONENT ANSARI, AZAM A 13d
18939221 SYSTEM FOR A WIND TURBINE AND WIND TURBINE QUIGLEY, THOMAS K 23d
18937945 BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A ROTATING COMPONENT OF A WIND TURBINE PILKINGTON, JAMES 30d
18970567 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM AND ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM SEABE, JUSTIN D 54d
18638422 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CONVERTER, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM GUGGER, SEAN A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3745 3
2834 2
3621 1
3654 1
3617 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19041744 METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A RECYCLING PROCESS OF A WIND TURBINE COMPONENT ANSARI, AZAM A 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jan 30, 2025
19012530 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATOR, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM AND WIND TURBINE RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C 3745 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jan 07, 2025
19001236 LUBRICATION SYSTEM, BEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATING A BEARING ARRANGEMENT OF A WIND TURBINE BUSE, MARK KENNETH 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 24, 2024
18970567 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM AND ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM SEABE, JUSTIN D 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Dec 05, 2024
18939221 SYSTEM FOR A WIND TURBINE AND WIND TURBINE QUIGLEY, THOMAS K 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18937945 BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A ROTATING COMPONENT OF A WIND TURBINE PILKINGTON, JAMES 3617 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18669260 BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE AND WIND TURBINE VERDIER, CHRISTOPHER M 3745 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18638422 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CONVERTER, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM GUGGER, SEAN A 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2024

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