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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…
06.04.2026
Every Word Will Be Attacked: What Founders Need to Know About Patent Language
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 3, 2026. A single word appeared 241 times in Enviro Tech's patent specification. The…
06.03.2026
Your Patent Just Got More Powerful — Here’s Why
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on June 3, 2026. When I read Magnolia Medical Technologies v. Kurin decision my first reaction was…
06.01.2026
Why Collision v. Samsung Is Actually a Win for Patent Owners
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on May 31, 2026. The conventional reading of the Collision v. Samsung decision misses the most…
03.26.2025
Building an Unbreakable Tech Patent Portfolio After AliveCor
Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on March 26, 2025. There is no such thing as a truly defensible Tech patent portfolio.…
