Defendant

Asim Waheed

5 cases as defendant.

Cases
5
Active
0
5 closed
Filed
2012
Top venue
Fed. Cir.
2 cases

Company profile

Note on entity type: The structured case data lists "Asim Waheed" as the tracked entity, but the record shows this is a natural person, not a company — an individual respondent in Align Technology's ITC actions, identified in ITC filings as "Dr. Asim Waheed c/o ClearCorrect Pakistan." There is therefore no headquarters, ticker, ownership status, employee count, or revenue to report, and no such facts have been verified.

Affiliation. Every tracked case arises from Align Technology's enforcement of a 2006 ITC consent order against OrthoClear and its alleged successors and former personnel. Waheed was named alongside ClearCorrect Operating, LLC (Houston, Texas), ClearCorrect Pakistan (Private), Ltd., Mudassar Rathore, Waqas Wahab, and Nadeem Arif as a party bound by that consent order via the "successor, assign, or agent" and officer/director/employee provisions. ClearCorrect Pakistan generated the digital data sets used to manufacture clear dental aligners sold in the U.S. by ClearCorrect USA; ClearCorrect was acquired by Switzerland's Straumann Group in 2017 for approximately $150 million. I could not verify Waheed's exact role, title, or current affiliation from a primary source.

Products / operations. No operating business is attributed to Waheed in the case record. He is a co-named respondent/intervenor whose alleged connection is to ClearCorrect Pakistan's aligner treatment-planning operations, not to a product or service line of his own.

Litigation posture. Five tracked cases, all as defendant, zero as plaintiff — consistent with an individual respondent hauled into a trade-secret and patent enforcement fight, not with a patent plaintiff or NPE. Venues are the ITC (Inv. No. 337-TA-562 enforcement under 19 C.F.R. § 210.75) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Nothing in the data shows Eastern District of Texas activity or any patent assertion by Waheed.

Notable cases. Align Technology, Inc. v. ClearCorrect Operating, LLC et al. (ITC enforcement of the 2006 OrthoClear consent order and the related Section 337 enforcement proceeding, both instituted March/May 2012); and the companion appeals Align Technology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, 771 F.3d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2014), which addressed whether electronically transmitted digital data sets count as "articles" under Section 337. In April 2015 Align and the ClearCorrect parties, expressly including Waheed, signed a termination agreement resolving the remanded enforcement action, contingent on the separate infringement appeal.

Align Technology, Inc. v. ClearCorrect Operating, LLC et al.

ITC found violation; on appeal
Filed:
2012-05-01
Patents:6685469

Align brought an ITC enforcement proceeding under 19 C.F.R. § 210.75 to enforce the 337-TA-562 Consent Order against ClearCorrect Operating, LLC, ClearCorrect Pakistan (Private), Ltd., and four individuals. The ITC found a violation of the consent order, leading to Federal Circuit appeals.

Align Technology, Inc. v. ClearCorrect Operating, LLC et al.

terminated/no violation
Docket:
337-TA-562 (Enforcement Proceeding)
Filed:
2012-03-01
Terminated:
2016-09-23
Patents:6602070

Align Technology filed an enforcement proceeding against ClearCorrect and its officers to enforce the 2006 Consent Order from Inv. No. 337-TA-562. The action was directed at the '511 and '880 patents specifically, but the Consent Order included the '070 patent. The Commission ultimately found no violation and terminated the proceeding, rescinding cease-and-desist orders.

Align Technology, Inc. v. ClearCorrect Operating, LLC et al.

resolved by termination agreement
Docket:
337-TA-562 (Enforcement)
Filed:
2012-03-01
Terminated:
2015-04-07

Align filed an enforcement proceeding under 19 C.F.R. § 210.75 alleging ClearCorrect and bound officers violated the 2006 consent order. The '880 and '511 patents were the basis for the enforcement complaint; the Commission found no violation, Align appealed, and the matter was resolved by an April 7, 2015 termination agreement.

Align Technology, Inc. v. U.S. International Trade Commission et al.

vacated and remanded
Docket:
2013-1240, 2013-1363
Terminated:
2014-07-18
Patents:6227850

Align appealed from the ITC enforcement proceeding relating to the 2006 consent order that included U.S. Patent No. 6,227,850. The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded, holding the ITC exceeded its authority in reviewing the ALJ's order denying termination and remanding for trial on whether former OrthoClear employees violated the Consent Order.

Align Technology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission et al.

reversed and remanded
Docket:
2013-1240, 2013-1363
Terminated:
2014-07-18

Appeal from the ITC's ClearCorrect enforcement proceeding. The Federal Circuit reversed and remanded on procedural grounds, holding the ITC exceeded its authority by reviewing an ALJ's order denying a motion to terminate. The narrative treats the '840 patent connection as family-level and unconfirmed; the enforcement dispute is described as involving the 2006 Consent Order and the '880 and '511 patents.