United States: Intellectual Property

In Causam Enterprises, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, No. 2023-1769 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 15, 2025), the Federal Circuit determined that Causam had standing to assert its assigned patent.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced a new pilot program offering expedited examination for certain pending, unexamined applications with narrowly tailored claim sets.

For applicants with a patent application having, or amended to have, a streamlined claim set—one independent claim and a maximum of nine singly dependent claims—the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently launched a new mechanism for accelerating initial review of the application.