Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
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
Espressif Systems (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters span 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, so the portfolio presents a fully distributed examination structure in the available data.
BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger listed share, making centralized issue tracking and individualized prosecution planning important for maintaining consistency across the portfolio.
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 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | 1 | 78.4% | +58.3% |
| RIVERA, ANIBAL | 1 | 91.0% | +11.8% |
| HOANG, THAI D | 1 | 86.7% | -1.9% |
| LYONS, ANDREW M | 1 | 73.8% | +15.5% |
| STRAPP, MATTHEW JACOB | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725101 | METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND SENDING ACKNOWLEDGMENT FRAME IN IEEE 802.15.4 NETWORK | HOANG, THAI D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18864256 | FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD FOR EMBEDDED DEVICE, EMBEDDED DEVICE, AND DEVELOPMENT END DEVICE | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | — |
| 18856589 | FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD FOR EMBEDDED DEVICE, AND EMBEDDED DEVICE | RIVERA, ANIBAL | — |
| 18019672 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING LSTM NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION | STRAPP, MATTHEW JACOB | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18864256 | FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD FOR EMBEDDED DEVICE, EMBEDDED DEVICE, AND DEVELOPMENT END DEVICE | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | — |
| 18856589 | FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD FOR EMBEDDED DEVICE, AND EMBEDDED DEVICE | RIVERA, ANIBAL | — |
| 18725098 | DEBUGGING METHOD, IOT DEVICE, DEBUGGING SERVER AND DEBUGGING SYSTEM | LYONS, ANDREW M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 2463 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 2182 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864256 | FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD FOR EMBEDDED DEVICE, EMBEDDED DEVICE, AND DEVELOPMENT END DEVICE | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | 2431 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18856589 | FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD FOR EMBEDDED DEVICE, AND EMBEDDED DEVICE | RIVERA, ANIBAL | 2192 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18725101 | METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND SENDING ACKNOWLEDGMENT FRAME IN IEEE 802.15.4 NETWORK | HOANG, THAI D | 2463 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18725098 | DEBUGGING METHOD, IOT DEVICE, DEBUGGING SERVER AND DEBUGGING SYSTEM | LYONS, ANDREW M | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18019672 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING LSTM NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION | STRAPP, MATTHEW JACOB | 2182 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEspressif Systems (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Stephen David Berman has the most, with 1 of Espressif Systems (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
