Babak Akhlaghi

Babak Akhlaghi helps innovative companies build patent portfolios that do more than secure intellectual property rights. His approach focuses on creating patent assets that support business objectives, strengthen competitive positioning, and enhance company value.

As the Founding Director of NovoTech Patent Firm, Babak works with startups, growth-stage companies, and established technology businesses on patent strategy, patent application preparation and prosecution, freedom-to-operate investigations, and broader intellectual property counseling. His clients operate across a wide range of industries, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, software, cloud computing, blockchain, quantum technologies, semiconductors, and robotics.

Babak Akhlaghi is recognized among the profession's leading IP strategists through his inclusion in the IAM Strategy 300, a respected recognition that highlights practitioners who are advancing the field of IP portfolio management and helping organizations extract greater value from their intellectual property. He has also been named a WIPR Leader and selected to Super Lawyers for eight consecutive years.

Beyond his practice, Babak teaches entrepreneurship law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland and contributes to the legal profession as a co-author of Westlaw's annual Patent Applications Handbook. His professional background includes both in-house and law firm experience, including work with Panasonic in Japan, Fish & Richardson, and McDermott Will & Emery.

Babak earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland, where he graduated first in his class. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia.