Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sinclair Broadcast Group LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, BOYD, JONATHAN A. The matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit. As the only examiner involved, BOYD, JONATHAN A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
The presence of the pending office action across the art unit suggests a very narrow administrative scope. With only the distinct examiner assigned, the prosecution path is currently tied to a single individual's review. This data reflects a focused presence in the Communications field with no distribution across multiple examiners or art units.
The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the current workload for this profile. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit, the technical classification is highly specific. BOYD, JONATHAN A, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, handles all active matters for Sinclair Broadcast Group LLC. This simple structure means that prosecution strategy is concentrated on one front.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYD, JONATHAN A | 1 | 69.3% | +7.1% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200015 | PRESENTATION, TIMING AND SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT FOR BROADCAST PROGRAMMING IN BETTING APPLICATIONS | BOYD, JONATHAN A | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSinclair Broadcast Group LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jonathan A Boyd has the most, with 1 of Sinclair Broadcast Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
