Babak Tehranchi, Ph.D.
- Firmwide Co-Chair, Post-Grant Practice
- San Diego
- Los Angeles
An accomplished inventor and engineer, Babak uses his applied technical experience to support client innovation and protect novel developments.
Dr. Babak Tehranchi’s practice has two primary areas of focus: patent prosecution and post-grant proceedings. As an experienced patent prosecutor, Babak helps clients in procuring patents in high-tech areas including wireless technologies, cloud systems, optics, artificial intelligence, digital rights management, software, electronics, and medical devices. Babak also focuses on preparing and conducting post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including inter partes review, post-grant review, and patent reexamination.
Babak has more than 10 years of industry experience as a research scientist and engineer. He has extensive experience and knowledge in image and video processing, optics and photonics, medical instrumentation and diagnosis systems, mechanical and electromechanical systems, wired and wireless communication systems, semiconductors, information security, data storage systems, and printing systems.
Babak is the inventor of 49 U.S. and international patents related to copy protection, digital watermarking, data encryption, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, optical data storage, and printing systems.
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Education & Credentials
Education
- University of San Diego School of Law, J.D.
- The University of Arizona, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
- The University of Arizona, M.S., Optical Sciences
- The University of Arizona, M.S., Electrical Engineering
- The University of Arizona, B.S., Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude
Bar and Court Admissions
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California
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Related Employment
- Foley & Lardner LLP, San Diego, CA, Attorney, Patent Agent and Law Clerk
- Verance Corporation, San Diego, CA, Senior Staff Engineer/Patent Agent
- Eastman Kodak R&D Laboratories, Rochester, NY, Senior Research Scientist
Additional Languages
- Farsi
Professional Recognition
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America: Litigation - Intellectual Property Law, 2023-2024
Recognized as a Top IPR Leader with a Success Rate of 100% in Patexia’s IPR Litigation Intelligence Report, 2021
#21 Best Performing Attorney (Representing Patent Owners), Patexia’s IPR Intelligence Report, 2021
#33 Best Performing Attorney (Representing Patent Owners and Petitioners), Patexia’s IPR Intelligence Report, 2021
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Patent Prosecution, Counseling and Post-Grant Review
University of Arizona
Draft and prosecute U.S. and International patents for the College of Optical Sciences and the College of Engineering in various engineering and optics-related areas, including augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), microscopy, polarization imaging, three-dimensional (3D) printing, laser systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and 3D imaging.
Verance Corporation
Draft and prosecute patents related to digital watermarking and content management technologies; provide strategic counseling in filing and prosecuting standards-related patents, as well as development of U.S. and foreign patent portfolios; conduct IP due diligence and competitive analysis.
Shenzhen Liown Electronics Company
Provide strategic counseling in development and growth of U.S. and foreign patent portfolios; draft and prosecute utility and design applications related to electronic and electromechanical lighting systems; conduct competitive analysis and pre-litigation due diligence.
University of California San Diego, and University of California Irvine
Draft and prosecute U.S. and International patents in a variety of cutting-edge technological areas, including optical systems, error correcting systems, neural networks, medical devices and MRI systems.
Post-Grant Proceedings
Babak has been active in the post-grant proceedings since their inception in 2012 and has conducted close to inter partes reviews (IPR), post-grant reviews (PGRs) and Covered Business Method Review (CBM) proceedings for clients such as Netflix, Hulu, Microsoft, Tyco, Lexmark, HTC, Netskope, Liown Electronics, and Peloton. Babak has participated in all substantive stages of the proceedings, including as the lead counsel, in drafting petitions, working with technical professionals, taking and defending depositions, filing various motions, and making oral arguments in front of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board. Represented clients on both the petitioner and patent owner sides. Worked on numerous ex parte and inter partes reexaminations on behalf of various clients. Babak is currently the co-chair of the Post-Grant Proceedings practice at Perkins Coie.
Patent Portfolio Analysis and Acquisition
Wireless Patent Portfolios
Performed technical and legal due diligence of wireless patent portfolio, which resulted in acquisition of over 1000 patents and patent applications.
Multimedia Streaming Patent Portfolio
Represented our client in conducting patent due diligence and acquisition of multimedia streaming patent portfolio in a transaction worth over $100M.
IP Due Diligence
Conducted numerous patent portfolio evaluations, freedom to operate analyses, and patent validity and infringement analyses for technologies including cardiovascular arrhythmia diagnosis, robotic surgery instrumentations, blood glucose level monitoring, nuclear fusion technologies, Bluetooth communications, cellular phone technologies, digital rights management, fiber optics, projector systems, X-ray optics, interferometric optical sensors, elliptical encryption techniques, distributed computing systems, power management systems, and electronic circuits.