Imran F. Vakil
Senior Associate
ivakil@onellp.com
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Imran Vakil handles a wide variety of intellectual property and corporate
matters. He regularly advises clients on their rights related to the
protection, management, and associated licensing of brand names,
packaging designs, literary works, paintings and drawings, audio-visual
media, software, confidential and proprietary business information, and
inventions. Imran’s litigation practice is focused on resolving disputes
over patents, trademark and trade dress, copyright, trade secrets, unfair
competition, and related business torts. Imran uses his decade+ of
international business and engineering experience to advise clients on
such matters as the creation of start-up companies, multi-national
expansion, pitfalls in global sourcing, intellectual property valuations,
and strategic alliances. In 2009, Imran Vakil was selected to the
California Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” list, an honor given to only the
top 2.5% of intellectual property lawyers in Southern California under
forty (40) years old.
Prior to practicing law, Imran worked as a consultant at electronics &
lighting manufacturing companies, real estate investment groups, garment
manufacturers, media production companies, beverage manufacturing
companies, and other start-up ventures. His engineering experience ranges
in size from designing small consumer products and associated tooling to
setting up a turn-key water bottling plants and in scope from designing
and implementing 100+ user ERP solutions and building CMS/SQL-driven
e-commerce websites to negotiating with international suppliers and
government regulators.
Illustrative Professional Experience:
- Litigated a widely publicized lawsuit involving a trademark and
trade dress infringement dispute against one of America’s five largest
water bottling companies. Despite a potential liability to the client
of several million dollars, the case successfully settled with no
money changing hands and no disruption of the client’s business.
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- Defended and successfully settled a case including patent, trade
secret misappropriation, and unfair competition claims involving
remote-controlled video conferencing equipment.
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- Litigated and received a $572,000.00 verdict against client’s
former executive. The former employee had set-up a competing company,
and had taken numerous confidential documents, materials and other
trade secrets. The court returned a verdict in favor of the client on
its claims of trademark infringement, copyright infringement, theft of
trade secrets, fraud, conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Represented a tool manufacturer in a series of patent infringement
lawsuits, successfully settling the case.
- Defended manufacturer against patent infringement claims involving
personalized streaming video and audio to mobile phones.
- Represented a nation-wide event planning service in a trademark
infringement and cyber squatting claims.
- Defended trademark infringement claims relating to a cigar
catering services, and compelled the plaintiff (on related
counterclaims) to settle, which included paying the client’s damages
and attorneys’ fees.
- Defended an electronics manufacturer in a DMCA suit, mitigating
$8,000,000 in potential damages and finally settling on zero damages.
- Represented film personality seeking to remove unauthorized use of her
likeness in cyberspace.
- Represented a large lighting manufacturer against two patent
trolls, yielding a multi-million dollar settlement in the client’s
favor.
- Litigated and received a $1.2 million dollar judgment in a contractual
dispute, against the client's customer.
Education:
Loyola Law School, J.D.
Pepperdine University, M.B.A., Finance Emphasis.
University of Southern California, B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering.
Bar
Admissions
California
U.S. District Court Central District of California
U.S. District Court Southern District of California
U.S. District Court Northern District of California
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
Candidate to Practice, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Professional
Organizations
American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
American Intellectual Property Law Association
California State Bar, Intellectual Property Section
Orange County Bar Association
Honors
Included in the 2009 Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars
List.
Nominated as a “Best Lawyer in Los Angeles” by Legal-Force Media
Publications.
