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- The USPTO Issued More Trademark Office Actions in September 2025 Than in July and August Combined
September did the work of a quarter. The USPTO issued 20,499 non-final office actions in September 2025 alone — more than the 9,941 it issued across July and August put together, and more than four
Jun 4, 2026 - The USPTO Kept Examining Through the Longest Shutdown in History — and Q4's Numbers Show It
The federal government was shut down for 43 of the 92 days in this quarter — the longest shutdown in U.S.
Jun 4, 2026 - Trademark Examiners Cleared a Backlog in March: Non-Final Actions Jumped 57% to End Q1 2026
The most interesting number in the first quarter is not the 92,404 non-final office actions the USPTO issued — it's how lumpily they arrived.
Jun 4, 2026 - 2026 Is Filing Trademarks Faster Than Any Year Since the 2021 Boom
Through April, 2026 has produced 225,274 trademark filings — the most in any January-to-April stretch since the pandemic-era surge of 2021.
Jun 4, 2026 - USPTO Trademark Filings Posted Their Second-Strongest May in 11 Years
U.S. trademark filings hit 56,635 in May 2026 — the second-strongest May in 11 years — as Class 42 jumped 39.5% and year-to-date volume ran 11.0% ahead of 2025.
Jun 4, 2026 - Nike Filed Bronny James's 'B9' Logo in February. By April, the USPTO Said No.
The most newsworthy thing on the February register isn't a number — it's a two-character mark.
Jun 4, 2026 - Netflix Filed a Trademark for a Product It Hasn't Named Yet — Twice in One Week
The most interesting filing on the January register doesn't match anything Netflix has announced. On Jan. 26 the company filed NETFLIX V/RTUALS (99615322); three days later, on Jan.
Jun 4, 2026 - Disney Filed Its IMAX Rival Two Weeks Before Announcing It — Inside a Record March on the Trademark Register
On March 30, Disney Enterprises filed a trademark application for INFINITY VISION.
Jun 4, 2026 - Google's Trademark Filings Read Like a Product Catalog — Because They Are
In October, Google filed U.S. trademark applications for OPAL, STITCH, PORTRAITS and MAGIC CUE. Three of those four are products you can already use.
Jun 4, 2026 - Amazon Filed the 'Amazon Leo' Trademark the Day It Killed 'Project Kuiper'
When Amazon retired the Project Kuiper code name and rechristened its satellite-internet constellation Amazon Leo on November 12, it did something the press release didn't mention: the next day, it
Jun 4, 2026 - Samsung Filed Its CES Headliners Before the Keynote — and December Closed 2025 at a Post-2020 High
Samsung spent the last three days of December quietly putting its CES 2026 vocabulary on the federal trademark register. AI VISION (99571762) and FOODNOTE (99572665) landed Dec.
Jun 4, 2026 - Amazon Filed for VEGA Days Before Launching Its Fire TV Operating System — and It Wasn't September's Only Pre-Launch Tip-Off
On September 30, Amazon filed a U.S. trademark application for VEGA (99420471). Days later, it launched Vega OS, its new Linux-based Fire TV operating system, on the Fire TV Stick 4K Select.
Jun 4, 2026 - Google Filed PIXELSNAP Days Before Naming Its MagSafe Rival — Inside a Top-Three August on the Trademark Register
Two days before Google publicly unveiled Pixelsnap, the magnetic charging system that became the headline accessory story of the Pixel 10 launch, the company had already done the quiet part: on Aug.
Jun 4, 2026 - Samsung Trademarked Its Micro RGB Display Tech Two Months Before the TV Shipped
Samsung filed MICRO RGB TECHNOLOGY with the USPTO on June 16, 2025, serial 99236395.
Jun 4, 2026 - USPTO Trademark Filings Hit Strongest July Since 2021 as Tech Classes Jump
July did not look like a summer lull: USPTO trademark applications reached 54,850, the strongest July since 2021 and the fourth-highest July in the 10-year same-month history we track.
Jun 4, 2026 - The Busiest U.S. Trademark Firms Aren't Who You Think
Set aside the flat-fee filing platforms — the Swyfts and LZ Legals that file in five figures — and look only at actual law firms. You'd expect the leaderboard to read like the AmLaw 200. It doesn't. The…
Jun 3, 2026 - Trademark Filing Services: What a Flat Fee Really Buys
The single largest source of new U.S. trademark applications isn't a law firm — it's the flat-fee filing service. Two of them, Swyft Legal and LZ Legal Services, each filed more than 10,000 applications in the past year, more than any traditional firm in the country.
May 31, 2026 - Who Files the Most Trademarks — and Who Abandons Them
Ask most people which firms file the most U.S. trademark applications and they'll name the big IP practices. The filing record says something more interesting: the highest-volume filing operations are three very different kinds — and a filing's odds of dying within a year swing from 1 in 200 to 1 in 4 depending on which you used.
May 31, 2026 - Understanding USPTO Examining Attorney Profiles: Registration Rates, Case Volume, and What They Mean for Your Application
When you file a trademark application with the USPTO, it gets assigned to an examining attorney. That assignment can have a meaningful impact on the trajectory of your application.
Apr 13, 2026 - How Trademark Applicants Actually Win Office Actions: A Data-Driven Analysis
We analyzed nearly 14,000 verified winning trademark office action cases across 14 refusal types, extracted nearly 19,000 individual arguments, and compared winning responses against over 11,500 losing cases. The results reveal which strategies lead to registration on the Principal Register and which don't.
Apr 7, 2026 - USPTO Letter of Protest Success Rates Shift
That is the question more trademark practitioners seem to be asking in 2026.
Mar 6, 2026 - The 45-Class Gambit: What Maximum Trademark Coverage Reveals About Brand Ambition
I built GleanMark to make trademark data accessible. This is part of a series where I use our platform to tell stories the data reveals — and the story that keeps surfacing when I look at filing behavior across all 45 Nice classes is that a small number of brands are playing a fundamentally different game than everyone else.
Mar 5, 2026 - What 1,500 Trademarks Tell You About Mattel
That number stopped me cold. Not because it is the largest corporate portfolio I have seen -- it is not.
Mar 5, 2026 - When a Trademark Portfolio Stops Being Protection and Starts Being Infrastructure
I built GleanMark to make trademark data accessible. This is part of a series where I use our platform to tell stories the data reveals — stories that are hard to see when you are working one filing at a time.
Mar 5, 2026 - Kanye West Has Filed 799 Trademarks. Only 46 Are Still Alive.
The first-ever analysis of celebrity trademark portfolios reveals who's building empires, who's burning money, and who's quietly running the tightest brand operation in entertainment.
Mar 3, 2026 - USPTO Trademark Pendency: Current Wait Times and What to Expect in 2026
"How long does it take to get a trademark?" It is the most common question brand owners ask, and the answer has changed dramatically over the past five years.
Feb 19, 2026 - Annual USPTO Intelligence Report: 2025 Year in Review
The USPTO logged 620,217 trademark filings in 2025 — a 3.9% increase over 2024 — as technology and entertainment led growth and brand investment stayed resilient despite economic uncertainty.
Jan 30, 2026 - Who Files US Trademarks? Inside the World of USPTO Correspondents
Every trademark application filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) requires a correspondent—the designated point of contact responsible for all official communications.
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