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06.21.2026
The Licensing Moment: When Validation Becomes Vulnerability
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 21, 2026. You've spent years on this. The invention. The prosecution. The real money…
06.17.2026
How Aortic Innovations Lost a Patent Case Without an Adversary
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 17, 2026. Aortic Innovations LLC owned four patents covering transcatheter heart valve technology. They…
06.14.2026
The Patent Office Just Opened the Door for AI Founders — But It Won’t Stay Open Forever
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 14, 2026. In September 2025, something unusual happened at the USPTO. The new Director…
06.12.2026
The Email That Cost Millions: What Wonderland v. Evenflo Teaches Every Founder About Patent Risk
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 11, 2026. An engineer at Evenflo Company sent an email that should never have…
06.10.2026
Grammar Killed the Patent: How a Single Phrase Cost DivX Its Netflix Deal
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 9, 2026. DivX had a patent on streaming partially encrypted video. Netflix was using…
06.07.2026
The $17 Million NDA That Failed: What IMD v. Cornell Teaches Founders About Patent Protection
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 7, 2026. A medical device company had an NDA. They had a jury award…
02.15.2026
Why Your Patent Portfolio Isn’t Giving You IP Leverage
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on February 5, 2026. We all like big numbers. A patent portfolio with hundreds or thousands…
01.01.2026
Disney’s $1 Billion OpenAI Bet Isn’t About AI—It’s About Survival
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on January 1, 2026. When I first heard about Disney's $1 billion investment in OpenAI, I'll…
07.06.2025
How TikTok Users Are Accidentally Building Lululemon’s $Million Design Patent Case
By Babak Akhlaghi on July 6, 2025. Thousands of TikTok users are accidentally building one of the strongest design patent…
07.04.2025
The Deliberate Pace of Autonomous Trucking Innovation
By Babak Akhlaghi on July 4, 2025. Growth at all costs is the startup mantra I've never subscribed to. When…
