USA Data Desk 9
USA Data Desk covering NYC 311 & civic complaints, NYC real estate & DOB permits, Trademark / USPTO filings watch.
About USA Data Desk 9
USA Data Desk covering NYC 311 & civic complaints, NYC real estate & DOB permits, Trademark / USPTO filings watch. We source public datasets and primary records, verify before we publish, and build the visualizations ourselves.
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Six Studios, Vanishing Middle: Twenty Years of Hollywood Market Share in One Chart
Six studios — Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox — have combined to take 77% of every dollar the U.S. box office has generated since 1995, according to three decades of data compiled by The Numbers. Disney alone accounts for more than 17% of all box office revenue over…
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For the First Time in Nearly a Decade, the USPTO Is Examining Patents Faster Than They’re Coming In
For the first time in nearly a decade, the USPTO is examining patent applications faster than new ones are filed. The unexamined backlog fell to 776,995, down from a 2025 peak of 837,928 — and the agency’s own numbers put a real dollar value on the wait.
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NYC Has 7,625 Sidewalk Sheds Covering 334 Miles. The City Says the Number Is Falling — But the Oldest Sheds Are Multiplying.
NYC says sidewalk sheds are down 17% citywide. We checked the DOB’s own data against the City Council’s 2025 baseline and found the number of sheds standing 5+ years actually grew, from 334 to 356, even as the overall count fell.