Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Kakaobank Corp.

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Kakaobank Corp. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a small portfolio with more than one examination setting.

CHOI, YUE YIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A matter-level review should remain practical, while the art-unit split warrants attention to differences in examination treatment before adopting a common amendment approach.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

2
Hard (67%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (33%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (67%)
§112 only1 (33%)

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
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHOI, YUE YIN 1 60.0% +8.2%
KUCAB, JAMIE R 1 67.2% +36.5%
KWONG, CHO YIU 1 32.1% +3.9%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18717931 METHOD FOR OPERATING CREDIT EVALUATION MODEL USING TWO-STEP LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME KWONG, CHO YIU 45d overdue
19213730 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL TRANSACTION BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK USING VALID TRANSACTION PATTERN CHOI, YUE YIN —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19048032 BANKING PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING APPLICATION FOR BANKING PROCESSING STORED THEREIN KUCAB, JAMIE R —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3699 2
3693 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19213730 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL TRANSACTION BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK USING VALID TRANSACTION PATTERN CHOI, YUE YIN 3699 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending May 20, 2025
19048032 BANKING PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING APPLICATION FOR BANKING PROCESSING STORED THEREIN KUCAB, JAMIE R 3699 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 07, 2025
18717931 METHOD FOR OPERATING CREDIT EVALUATION MODEL USING TWO-STEP LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §101 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Kakaobank Corp. have?

Kakaobank Corp. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Kakaobank Corp. applications?

Yue Yin Choi has the most, with 1 of Kakaobank Corp.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Kakaobank Corp.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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