Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Naver Webtoon Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio's workload is distributed, with the 2 actions assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company is pursuing multiple distinct technical paths within the e-commerce or mechanical sectors. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending applications cover different specialized areas of transportation or mechanical systems.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PARK, YONG S, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, each examiner handles a portion of the active prosecution. This arrangement requires the company to coordinate responses across different art units and examiner perspectives within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage separate prosecution timelines and sets of examiner requirements. The 2 distinct art units further emphasize the technical variety in the company's current USPTO filings. This structure ensures that the portfolio's outcomes are not dependent on any single individual's review.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK, YONG S | 1 | 25.8% | +11.4% |
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.1% | +13.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342925 | DIGITAL CURRENCY PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 46d overdue |
| 18451487 | PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PURCHASING DIGITAL CURRENCY | PARK, YONG S | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342925 | DIGITAL CURRENCY PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 46d overdue |
| 18451487 | PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PURCHASING DIGITAL CURRENCY | PARK, YONG S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18451487 | PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PURCHASING DIGITAL CURRENCY | PARK, YONG S | 3694 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18342925 | DIGITAL CURRENCY PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNaver Webtoon Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Yong S Park has the most, with 1 of Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
