Align is using AI but fears it could lead to IP infringement or loss, a critical concern given its ongoing, expensive IP lawsuits against competitors which cost $38.7M in the quarter. This creates a need for AI governance, security, and intellectual property protection solutions.
Filing excerpt
The use of AI technologies for developing products or services may adversely affect or preclude our intellectual property rights in such products or services, or may expose us to liability related to the infringement, misappropriation or other violation of third-party intellectual property.
What this signalsFilings often name leadership changes, deals and spending plans.
Technologies
Competitors
sec-10qaiInvestmentGet every 10-Q signal for Align Technology and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.
Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Align Technology this week?”
The Signal API returns 10-Q signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.
Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.
This page shows a preview. The full sec-10q record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.
Company
linkedin_urlValue in the APIindustriesValue in the APIemployee_count_lowValue in the APIemployee_count_highValue in the APIrevenueValue in the APIdescriptionValue in the APISignal
signal_nameValue in the APIassociationValue in the APIGET /v1/signals/a01a3b66-5c98-4261-8ca1-769c102a23d8 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for aligntech.com.
{
"signal_id": "a01a3b66-5c98-4261-8ca1-769c102a23d8",
"signal_type": "sec-10q",
"signal_subtype": "aiInvestment",
"detected_at": "2026-08-11T08:04:19.29+00:00",
"company": {
"name": "Align Technology",
"domain": "aligntech.com"
},
"data": {
"detail": "Align is using AI but fears it could lead to IP infringement or loss, a critical concern given its ongoing, expensive IP lawsuits against competitors which cost $38.7M in the quarter. This creates a need for AI governance, security, and intellectual property protection solutions.",
"metrics": {
"timeframe": "current_quarter",
"dollar_context": "Legal settlements and contingencies expense for the three months ended June 30, 2026",
"dollar_millions": 38.714
},
"summary": "Align flags AI-related IP risks amid costly litigation with competitors Straumann and Angelalign",
"excerpts": "The use of AI technologies for developing products or services may adversely affect or preclude our intellectual property rights in such products or services, or may expose us to liability related to the infringement, misappropriation or other violation of third-party intellectual property.",
"relevance": 0.9,
"sentiment": "negative",
"confidence": "high",
"source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714926000060/algn-20260630.htm",
"filing_date": "2026-08-05",
"filing_year": 2026,
"fiscal_year": 0,
"fiscal_year_end": "06/30",
"sales_relevance": "Target for AI vendors",
"signal_category": "technology",
"competitors_mentioned": [
"Straumann",
"Angelalign Technology Inc."
],
"technologies_mentioned": [
"AI",
"artificial intelligence"
]
}
}
curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/a01a3b66-5c98-4261-8ca1-769c102a23d8 \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"domain":"aligntech.com","limit":20}'Long text fields are shortened on this page.
Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.