Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that the company's current patenting efforts are not concentrated under a single reviewer. This distribution of the workload allows for a variety of perspectives to be applied to the pending applications, which can be beneficial for navigating complex technical rejections. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific tendencies of two different examiners.
The matters are spread across 2 distinct art units. CHAU, LISA N is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the company's 2 pending cases are being examined independently by different staff in different technical divisions. This requires a flexible approach to prosecution, as the two active matters are subject to the standards and interpretations of two separate art units. The lack of concentration suggests that the company's current filings cover a range of chemical applications rather than a single narrow niche.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAU, LISA N | 1 | 25.4% | +17.2% |
| ISAAC, STANETTA D | 1 | 85.8% | -36.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404050 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | ISAAC, STANETTA D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701250 | ISOTROPIC GRANULAR THIN FILM | CHAU, LISA N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701250 | ISOTROPIC GRANULAR THIN FILM | CHAU, LISA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701250 | ISOTROPIC GRANULAR THIN FILM | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18404050 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | ISAAC, STANETTA D | 2898 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCitizen Watch Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Lisa N Chau has the most, with 1 of Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
