Trademark, Copyright & IP Filing Watch

Track intellectual property filing for US creators and small businesses. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: USPTO trademark and patent fee changes, filing rule changes, deadline changes, examination and specimen requirement changes and opposition or cancellation procedure changes with effective dates; USPTO alerts about scam invoices and unauthorized filing services; Copyright Office fee, registration, group registration, AI authorship and recordation changes; DMCA, takedown and counter-notice rule changes; Madrid Protocol and PCT changes affecting US applicants; small entity, micro entity and pro bono program changes; Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and appellate rulings that change what a small filer can protect; and domain and social handle dispute rule changes. Prefer USPTO, the Copyright Office, the Federal Register, WIPO, court documents and established IP reporting; ignore filing-service marketing, and never give individual legal advice. Put the office or rule first in the title with the fee or date and the effect on a first-time filer. Use high severity for a fee change taking effect within 90 days, an active scam alert, or a ruling affecting most small filers. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.