Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (Vestas Wind Systems)

9 pending office actions • 1 client • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
89% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3 69.8% +46.4%
SCHWENNING, LYNN E 1 76.2% +22.6%
HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 1 79.2% +13.1%
REITZ, MICHAEL K. 1 70.0% +5.8%
TORRES, JOSEPH D 1 78.0% +11.6%
PAULSON, SHEETAL R. 1 39.0% +16.6%
DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 1 74.0% +17.9%

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18850781 TRANSMISSION FOR A WIND TURBINE GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 24d overdue
18872876 A WIND TURBINE GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 16d 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
18885819 VIRTUAL MACHINE TESTING OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES USING PHYSICAL DOMAIN PERFORMANCE SIGNATURES TORRES, JOSEPH D 2d overdue
19113960 TRANSPORTING WIND TURBINE COMPONENTS SCHWENNING, LYNN E 13d
18691080 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING COMPONENTS OF AN OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE PAULSON, SHEETAL R. 15d
18717524 LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 30d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 9

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37456
36521
21121
36151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19113960 TRANSPORTING WIND TURBINE COMPONENTS VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 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 VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 3745 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2025
18881968 DAMPING ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S REITZ, MICHAEL K. 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 07, 2025
18872876 A WIND TURBINE VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2024
18850781 TRANSMISSION FOR A WIND TURBINE VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 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 VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S TORRES, JOSEPH D 2112 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2024
18717524 LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18691080 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING COMPONENTS OF AN OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S PAULSON, SHEETAL R. 3615 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 12, 2024
17201314 METHOD OF RETROFITTING A WIND TURBINE WITH AN ENERGY GENERATING UNIT VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 3745 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2021

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