Note on the entity: The name in the case data, "Waqas Wahab," is an individual person, not a company. He appears in the litigation database only as a named respondent, not as a corporate party.
Overview. Dr. Waqas Wahab is a dental professional and orthodontic technology executive based in Lahore, Pakistan. He is founder and CEO of ClearPath Orthodontics (Pvt) Ltd, which he has led since June 2007, and previously served as Director of Orthodontics at ClearCorrect (2009–2015), Director of R&D at OrthoClear (2005–2007), and Clinical Quality Manager at Align Technology (2000–2002). ClearPath is privately held; third-party business-data aggregators list it at roughly 201–500 employees, but no audited headcount or revenue figure is publicly available.
Operations. ClearPath Orthodontics manufactures clear dental aligners and provides digital treatment planning, including OEM/private-label aligner production for partners in multiple countries. Its FDA 510(k) summary (K123514) describes the "ClearPath Aligner" as a series of clear thermoformed plastic appliances for correction of dental malocclusion by continuous gentle force. The company also runs ClearPath Institute, which operates dental outreach, mobile clinics and aligner consultation programs.
Litigation posture. Wahab is a defendant in all five tracked matters and a plaintiff in none. He is not a patent-asserting entity; he was named individually in Align Technology's ITC enforcement and infringement actions against the ClearCorrect group, based on his role at ClearCorrect Pakistan (Private), Ltd. The cases are Section 337 ITC proceedings and related Federal Circuit appeals, not district-court NPE suits, so the usual plaintiff-friendly-venue analysis does not apply.
Notable cases. All tracked matters arise from Align Technology, Inc. v. ClearCorrect Operating, LLC et al. Align filed an enforcement complaint at the ITC on March 1, 2012 (Inv. No. 337-TA-562) alleging violation of a 2006 consent order entered after Align's settlement with OrthoClear, and filed a parallel infringement complaint (Inv. No. 337-TA-833). Respondents included ClearCorrect USA, ClearCorrect Pakistan, Mudassar Rathore, Waqas Wahab, Nadeem Arif and Asim Waheed. The Federal Circuit's 2014 decision in Align Technology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, 771 F.3d 1317, reversed the Commission on the scope of the consent order and remanded. In April 2015 the parties reached a termination agreement resolving the remanded enforcement action, contingent on the outcome of the '833 appeal.