Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S

23 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 87 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
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. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
21
Medium (91%)
2
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only19 (83%)
§102 only2 (9%)
§112 only2 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
26% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
9% of docket
15
Mechanical / Eng
65% 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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 6 69.8% +46.4%
LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 2 75.3% +26.3%
DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 2 74.0% +17.9%
SCHWENNING, LYNN E 1 76.2% +22.6%
HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 1 79.2% +13.1%
REITZ, MICHAEL K. 1 70.0% +5.8%
REID JR, CHARLES H 1 68.6% +24.0%
AMEVIGBE, KOMI NOUNYANOU 1
ABEDIN, SHANTO 1 87.2% +23.5%
TORRES, JOSEPH D 1 78.0% +11.6%

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
18933123 METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING ACCESS RIGHTS TO A UNIT IN A RENEWABLE POWER GENERATING SYSTEM ABEDIN, SHANTO 29d

Interview Candidates (15)

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
18879727 WIND TURBINE CONTROL BASED ON TILT AND YAW ANGLE REID JR, CHARLES H 32d overdue
18850781 TRANSMISSION FOR A WIND TURBINE GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 24d overdue
18872876 A WIND TURBINE GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 16d overdue
18878599 A METHOD OF REPOWERING A WIND TURBINE LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 15d overdue
17201314 METHOD OF RETROFITTING A WIND TURBINE WITH AN ENERGY GENERATING UNIT DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 11d overdue
19071053 TRANSITION PIECE FOR A HYBRID WIND TURBINE TOWER AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING SAME HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 9d overdue
18875579 A WIND TURBINE WITH BLADE CONNECTING TENSION MEMBERS GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 8d overdue
19130069 METHOD OF REPOWERING A WIND TURBINE LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 5d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3745 10
3711 2
2834 2
3652 1
2493 1
2494 1
2112 1
3615 1
3658 1
2115 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19130069 METHOD OF REPOWERING A WIND TURBINE LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 14, 2025
19113960 TRANSPORTING WIND TURBINE COMPONENTS SCHWENNING, LYNN E 3652 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 21, 2025
19071053 TRANSITION PIECE FOR A HYBRID WIND TURBINE TOWER AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING SAME HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 3745 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2025
18881968 DAMPING ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE REITZ, MICHAEL K. 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 07, 2025
18879679 WIND TURBINE WAKE LOSS CONTROL USING DETECTED DOWNSTREAM WAKE LOSS AS A FUNCTION OF WIND DIRECTION GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 27, 2024
18879727 WIND TURBINE CONTROL BASED ON TILT AND YAW ANGLE REID JR, CHARLES H 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2024
18878599 A METHOD OF REPOWERING A WIND TURBINE LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2024
18877974 A FAMILY OF WIND TURBINE BLADES GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2024
18875579 A WIND TURBINE WITH BLADE CONNECTING TENSION MEMBERS GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2024
18872876 A WIND TURBINE GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2024
18957158 METHOD FOR MANAGING EMERGENCY ACCESS TO A COMPUTER SYSTEM OF A RENEWABLE POWER PLANT AMEVIGBE, KOMI NOUNYANOU 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Nov 22, 2024
18933123 METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING ACCESS RIGHTS TO A UNIT IN A RENEWABLE POWER GENERATING SYSTEM ABEDIN, SHANTO 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18850781 TRANSMISSION FOR A WIND TURBINE GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18885819 VIRTUAL MACHINE TESTING OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES USING PHYSICAL DOMAIN PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES TORRES, JOSEPH D 2112 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2024
18717524 LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18707717 A METHOD FOR REDUCING ROTOR IMBALANCE IN A WIND TURBINE MIKAILOFF, STEFAN 2834 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 06, 2024
18691080 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING COMPONENTS OF AN OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE PAULSON, SHEETAL R. 3615 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18571698 CONTROL OF A TOOL MOUNTED ON A ROBOTIC ARM ROBARGE, TYLER ROGER 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18561584 INDIVIDUAL PITCH CONTROL WITH UNAVAILABLE BLADE LOAD SENSOR CONNOLLY, MARK A 2115 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18557544 CONTROL SCHEME FOR CLUSTER OF WIND TURBINES DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Oct 26, 2023
18141992 METHOD FOR VALIDATING AN UPGRADED VERSION OF WIND TURBINE CONTROL SOFTWARE LYONS, ANDREW M 2191 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending May 01, 2023
17794546 CONTROL OF A RENEWABLE POWER PLANT IN RESPONSE TO ZERO POWER DEMAND SIGNAL TRAN, VI N 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2022
17201314 METHOD OF RETROFITTING A WIND TURBINE WITH AN ENERGY GENERATING UNIT DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 3745 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2021

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