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Benjamin L. Singer

Benjamin represents plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property cases and other technology-centric business disputes. He has served as lead counsel in dozens of actions throughout the United States, including in every District Court of California. After being named a Rising Star in 2015, 2016, and 2017 in Northern California for IP Litigation by SuperLawyers magazine, Benjamin was recognized as a Super Lawyer in 2020. Benjamin was also selected in 2020 for membership in the Lawyers of Distinction and as a California winner of the IP Disputes award from International Advisory Experts.

Education

  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School (2002)
  • BSE, Aerospace Engineering (cum laude), University of Michigan (1999)

Professional Activities

  • Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
  • Member, Licensing Executives Society
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Former Adjunct Law Professor at St. Francis College

Prior Associations

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • Fish & Neave LLP (now Ropes & Gray LLP)

Bar Admissions

  • State Bars: California, New York, and Massachusetts
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Northern District of California
  • Central District of California
  • Eastern District of California
  • Southern District of California
  • Southern District of New York

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Current Cases

Some of Benjamin’s current representations include:

  • Propoint Solutions, LLC v. Regis Corp. et al (N.D. Cal.)  – Lead counsel for individual defendant in a trade secret and breach of contract dispute.
  • Software Research, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for inventor/plaintiff in a series of patent infringement actions relating to automatic performance and regression testing of web applications.
  • Bunsow De Mory LLP v. North Forty Consulting LLC (N.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for plaintiff in breach of contract action.

Clients

Ben has had the privilege of serving as counsel for many high-performing companies. Some of his clients include:

  • Ancestry.com LLC
  • Annosoft
  • Aubin Industries, Inc.
  • Aurora Innovation
  • Blue Moon Beauty, LLC
  • Clutch Bodyshop
  • Consilium Wealth Management
  • Coppola Foods Limited
  • Creative Mobile Technologies, LLC
  • EZchip Technologies Ltd.
  • FWD:Power, LLC
  • Insomniac Games, Inc.
  • KlausTech LLC
  • Locale Lifestyle Magazine LLC
  • Myogenix Corp.
  • NBTY, Inc.
  • RF Micro Devices
  • sMedio Inc.
  • Software Research Inc.
  • Symantec Corporation
  • Telesocial Inc.
  • Tyto Life, LLC
  • Universal Sonar Mount, Inc.
  • Wolo Manufacturing Corp.
  • Walgreen Company

Notable Matters

Throughout Benjamin’s career he has successfully represented clients as lead counsel in a variety of disputes ranging from high-stakes patent litigations to complex commercial cases.

Some of Benjamin’s notable patent representations include:

  • Lead counsel for inventor plaintiff in series of patent infringement actions in the Eastern District of Texas relating to dynamic packet processing.
  • Lead counsel for inventor plaintiff in patent infringement actions in the District of Delaware relating to synchronized playback through wireless speakers.
  • Deep Web, L.L.C. v. Ask Media Group, LLC (N.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to deep web search engine technlogy.
  • Proxicom Wireless, LLC v. Macy’s Inc. et al (M.D. Fl.)  – Lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to BLE technology.
  • Blackbird Tech, LLC v. Arro, Inc. and Creative Mobile Technologies, LLC (D. Del.) – Lead counsel for four defendants in a patent infringement action relating to GPS enabled computing.
  • Thermolife International, LLC v. NBTY, Inc. et al.; Thermolife International, LLC v. Solgar, Inc.; Thermolife International, LLC v. United States Nutrition, Inc.; Thermolife International, LLC v. Sundown Naturals (S.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for four defendants in a patent infringement action relating to dietary supplements.
  • The Tawnsaura Group v. Puritan’s Pride; The Tawnsaura Group v. NBTY (C.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendants in two separate patent infringement lawsuits brought by a non-practicing entity relating to dietary supplements.
  • Reason Bradley v. Applied Marine Systems, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for inventor/plaintiff in a patent infringement action against a competitor relating to tiltable sonar mounts.
  • Qommerce Systems, LLC v. Ancestry.com (E.D. Tex.) – Lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to e-commerce technology.
  • PanTaurus LLC v. Ancestry.com (E.D. Tex.) – Lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to hardware architecture.
  • McRO, Inc. v. Insomniac Games, Inc. (C.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to automated lip sync animation in video games.
  • Albert John Freeman v. Walgreen Co. (N.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to commercial transaction systems.
  • Thermolife International, LLC v. Myogenix Corp. et al.  (S.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendants in a patent infringement action relating to dietary supplements.
  • Ryu v. Avon Products, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for plaintiff and patent owner Bu Kwang Ryu against Avon for patent infringement relating to a cosmetic brush case.
  • David Shin v. Wolo Manufacturing Corp. et al. (C.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendants in a design patent suit relating to mini halogen lights. 

Some of Benjamin’s notable trademark representations include:

  • CAFE Foundation, Inc. v. Seeley (N.D. Cal.) – Lead trial counsel for defendant in Lanham Act and trademark infringement action.
  • 24/7 Customer, Inc. v. 24-7 Intouch et al. (N.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendant in a trademark infringement action relating to call center solutions.
  • Orion Pictures Corp. v. Orion Entertainment Inc., et al. (C.D. Cal) – Lead counsel for defendant in a trademark infringement action relating to media production.
  • Michael Zschoche v. Locale Lifestyle Magazine et al. (S.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendants in a trademark infringement action relating to periodicals.
  • Moroccanoil Inc. v. Blue Moon Beauty LLC et al. (C.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendants in a trademark infringement suit relating to the cosmetic industry.
  • Axis Labs, Inc. v. Ashley Conrad et al. (C.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendant in a trademark infringement action relating to dietary supplements.

Some of Benjamin’s notable business tort representations include:

  • Creative Mobile Technologies LLC v. Flywheel Software Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Lead trial counsel for plaintiff in a breach of contract and tortious interference action.
  • PACT XPP Technologies AG v. Alliacense Limited, LLC (Cal. Supr.) – Lead trial counsel for plaintiff in a breach of contract action in Santa Clara.
  • Veritas Investments, Inc. v. Lantern Group Realty (Cal. Supr.) – Lead counsel for defendants in a trade secret misappropriation action in San Francisco.
  • Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation v. Robert Benton et al. (S.D. Cal.) – Lead counsel for defendant Robert Benton in a breach of contract action relating to inventorship rights.
  • Lead counsel for plaintiff Creative Mobile Technologies, LLC in a breach of contract case.  Achieved settlement within 60 days of being retained to take over the dispute, which had been litigated for more than two years.
  • Consilium Wealth Management et al. v. Clarity Wealth et al. (Cal .Supr.) – Lead counsel for a wealth management firm asserting a trade secret, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty claim in Conta Costa.

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