Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Botek Praezisionsbohrtechnik GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner LAWRENCE AVERICK, who is the only distinct examiner currently listed for the company. This indicates a focused prosecution effort where a single individual is responsible for reviewing the company's active application.
The portfolio's activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. LAWRENCE AVERICK is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, the entire prosecution workload is managed by this individual. This concentration within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity.
Practitioners should note that the company's current prosecution success relies on the relationship with a single examiner in a single art unit. With only 1 pending office action, there is no broader portfolio activity to provide comparative data on examiner behavior. The strategy must be tailored specifically to the requirements of LAWRENCE AVERICK and the norms of the individual art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVERICK, LAWRENCE | 1 | 75.8% | +23.8% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18442732 | SINGLE-LIP DRILL WITH INTERCHANGEABLE GUIDE BARS FOR SMALL BORE DIAMETERS | AVERICK, LAWRENCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18442732 | SINGLE-LIP DRILL WITH INTERCHANGEABLE GUIDE BARS FOR SMALL BORE DIAMETERS | AVERICK, LAWRENCE | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBotek Praezisionsbohrtechnik GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lawrence Averick has the most, with 1 of Botek Praezisionsbohrtechnik GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
