Imran Farooq Vakil

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.