Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Naver Webtoon Ltd. maintains 5 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct examiners and the same number of distinct art units. ZHUBING REN is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 pending office actions. The portfolio shows a variety in its examination environment, as the actions involve multiple specialized divisions.
With 4 distinct examiners reviewing the pending office actions, most individuals are handling a small portion of the work. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution experience is not heavily reliant on any one individual, though ZHUBING REN oversees 2 of the matters. The presence of multiple art units indicates that the technical subject matter is categorized into several different specialized divisions at the patent office.
Practitioners should note that the 5 pending office actions are distributed across the art units and examiners. This lack of concentration means that strategies may need to be tailored to the specific requirements of each unit and examiner. The busiest examiner is the only one handling multiple applications in this group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REN, ZHUBING | 1 | 71.6% | +42.3% |
| MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 1 | 80.0% | +33.3% |
| WELCH, DAVID T | 1 | 81.3% | +26.7% |
| PARK, YONG S | 1 | 26.0% | +11.5% |
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981077 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING CONTENT TRANSLATION | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342925 | DIGITAL CURRENCY PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 46d overdue |
| 18816612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS | WELCH, DAVID T | 9d overdue |
| 18982746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING CONTENT | REN, ZHUBING | — |
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342925 | DIGITAL CURRENCY PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 46d overdue |
| 18816612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS | WELCH, DAVID T | 9d overdue |
| 18982746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING CONTENT | REN, ZHUBING | — |
| 18981077 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING CONTENT TRANSLATION | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | — |
| 18451487 | PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PURCHASING DIGITAL CURRENCY | PARK, YONG S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2658 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING CONTENT | REN, ZHUBING | 2658 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18981077 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING CONTENT TRANSLATION | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18816612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS | WELCH, DAVID T | 2613 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18451487 | PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PURCHASING DIGITAL CURRENCY | PARK, YONG S | 3694 | §101§103 | 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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