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On July 18th, 2026 a rejection by the United States Patent and Trademark Office was making its rounds on social media. In it, the office states that the individual could not trademark the word Fursona in relation to their company, with the primary reason being that it was too similar of a trademark to one already created for the company of “Fursona Pins”. The applicant has been trying to register this since November, 13th of 2025.

A shared document of this rejection was clearly not the first rejection to registration, but in response to counter arguments made by the applicant to a previous rejection. The three primary arguments were made by the person trying to register Fursona as a trademark for their business:

1. They are not trying to register Fursona Pins, just Fursonas.
2. They are trying to make a robe company not a pin company
3. The word is not related to the commons word of “fursona” used by the furry fandom

The USPTO’s response counters each of these arguments and their viability, and in the end sustains its prior rejection of the trademark request.

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Capital FurCon, an upcoming furry convention on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., moved its dates up a weekend due to coinciding with a conservative and Christian broadcaster conference at the same venue, the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Flayrah has learned.

Originally scheduled for February 25–28, 2027, the convention made an announcement earlier this month that it would be moved to February 18–21, one week earlier. The note, made on July 2nd, stated that it was “Due to an error made by our hotel partner”. “This change became necessary due to the Gaylord’s sales team inadvertently double-booking our event space,” it read.

The rooms that the furry convention had contracted were not rented out to another event at the same time in a booking mishap, but rather the Gaylord is to be the venue for the National Religious Broadcasters’ 2027 International Christian Media Convention. Though occupying a different area, it partially overlapped with Capital FurCon’s original dates. The ICMC is scheduled for the last Tuesday through Friday in February; Capital FurCon had the last Thursday through Sunday.

Last week, the convention made a blog post alluding to this. The “original dates overlapped with an event that was not ideal for both events and our event's attendees.” This was attributed to “a mistake on the Hotel's side.” The event? ICMC 2027, McChaffee, the convention chair, confirmed to Flayrah.

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Taking aim at nostalgia of an era of cartoons sitcoms long past, Dynamite Publishing is releasing a new comic series based on the 1990s Disney Franchise of Tail Spin. The story of this series starts as Baloo's services are called to help a new citizen get to the home town of Cape Suzette, but face opposition along the way headed by Don Karnage's band of pirates.

They are adding this to a catalog of other such comics that are also based on sitcom cartoons from the era such as Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, and The Lion King.

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Exterior of the David Lawrence Convention Center displaying the Anthrocon flag -Photo by Kamen

In 2006, the Anthrocon Board of Directors voted to move the convention from Philadelphia to the David Lawrence convention center and Westin in Pittsburgh. This was the start of a relationship that culminated in twenty thousand attendees celebrating 20 years of Anthrocon.

Anthrocon took place in Pittsburgh from July 2nd to July 5th with the theme of “Critters, Cryptids, and Curses,” while also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the convention taking place in the steel city. To honor this occasion, Pittsburgh mayor Corey O’Conner came to the organizers of the convention to declare the day “Anthrocon Day.” This was an unexpected gift to the convention, which involved visiting the organizers on July 1st, and the county executive Sara Innamorato congratulating the convention for contributing 169 million dollars into the Pittsburgh economy for the past 20 years.

For 20 years Anthrocon has had a special relation with its host city as it is symbiotic: Anthrocon gets to call the city its host while the city of Pittsburgh generates revenue from attendees.