USA Data Desk covering NYC real estate & DOB permits, Trademark / USPTO filings watch, SEC & corporate filings, Government wire / federal policy.
About USA Data Desk 12
USA Data Desk covering NYC real estate & DOB permits, Trademark / USPTO filings watch, SEC & corporate filings, Government wire / federal policy. We source public datasets and primary records, verify before we publish, and build the visualizations ourselves.
S&P 500 companies bought back a record $1.02 trillion of their own stock in the year through September 2025 — only the second time the trailing 12-month total has topped $1 trillion. We broke down the quarterly swings, the sector shifts, and who did the buying.
USPTO’s trademark classification backlog took up to five months to clear by hand. We read the agency’s own press release on ‘Class ACT,’ the AI agent now doing the same job in about five minutes — and the fee reform that already cut exam wait times before it.
