HeyJaredBabak Akhlaghi
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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The Two-Path Trap: How Startups Quietly Destroy Their Own Patent Portfolios (opens the original)
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Most founders think patent risk comes from the outside. A competitor copies your technology. Someone files an IPR. Someone designs around your claims. In my experience advising startups, the more dangerous threat is internal. It comes from decisions you make and from people who leave. There are two paths into the same trap. One is a deliberate business decision. The other is normal human movement. Both end at an obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) problem that a terminal disclaimer cannot f
Ex Parte Baurin Got It Wrong, And Startup Patent Portfolios Will Pay For It (opens the original)
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By Babak Akhlaghi on September 12, 2026. In August 2026, the USPTO’s Appeals Review Panel issued its decision in Ex parte Baurin. The panel, led by Director John Squires, reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and reinstated OTDP rejections against a pending application. Here is the part that should get your attention as a founder. The rejected claims would have expired roughly five years before the reference patent used against them. There was no risk of extending anyone’s monopoly. The pan
The Startup Trade Secret Playbook: Checklists, Triggers, And Protocols For Founders (opens the original)
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Educational Purposes Only. This material does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as legal advice. By Babak Akhlaghi on July 25, 2026. This is a working tool, not an article. Use it when you are building your trade secret program, onboarding a new hire from a competitor, preparing for a key employee’s departure, or reviewing your supplier protocols. Pull the relevant section and act on it. One sentence of context: the Apple v. OpenAI lawsuit filed in July 2026 illustrates w
The Double-Exposure Problem: What Your Thin Provisional Is Actually Costing You (opens the original)
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By Babak Akhlaghi on August 25, 2026. A Federal Circuit decision just changed what your provisional application is worth — in both directions. You filed a provisional to lock in a date. Cheap, fast, patent pending. Fix it later. That advice was always incomplete. A Federal Circuit decision from August 2026 made the missing half concrete — and exposed a risk most founders have never considered. This piece covers both sides. First, what a thin provisional costs you on your own filing. Then, how th
A $50 Million Patent Verdict Vanished On Appeal. Here Is What Founders Should Learn From It. (opens the original)
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By Babak Akhlaghi on August 6, 2026. In July 2026, the Federal Circuit erased one of the biggest university patent wins in recent memory. The University of Texas had convinced a Delaware jury that Boston Scientific willfully infringed its drug-delivery patent. The jury awarded damages. The district court entered judgment. Then the appeals court reversed everything. The Federal Circuit wiped out the almost $50 million damages award and granted Boston Scientific judgment as a matter of law on two
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