Armament Systems, inc. v. Shell Oil Company
Apr 06, 2006OUTCOME: Secured dismissal and $150,000 in sanctions
Patent Infringement action
Surjit Paul Singh Soni's Legal Cases (15)
Pasadena, CA
Intellectual property Lawyer at Pasadena, CA
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property, Litigation ... +6 more
Bausch & Lomb v. Oasis Medical
Apr 07, 2004OUTCOME: Favorably Settled
Patent infringement action. Defended manufacturer of a cutting blade and blade assembly for the Hansatome® microkeratome.
Atlantic Mutual Ins. Co. v. J. Lamb, Inc.
Aug 01, 2002OUTCOME: Successful Appeal
Successfully appealed from an adverse summary judgment regarding insurance coverage and obtained an award of defense costs in underlying patent infringement action for client.
Sunburst Products v. Phillip Morris Co
Dec 31, 1997OUTCOME: Settled with Phillip Morris paying $520,000
Design Patent, trade dress, unfair competition case against producer of MARLBORO cigarettes over infringement of design of a waist pack through advertising, distribution of waist pack in conjunction wi ... th the Marlboro Adventure Team promotion campaign. Settled with Phillip Morris paying $520,000.
Refac v. Hitachi
Dec 31, 1991OUTCOME: Judgment of non-infringement for all defendants.
A patent infringement action in which Mr. Soni represented 18 out of 118 named defendants. He secured a judgment of non-infringement, which applied to all 118 named defendants. The Court of Appeals for ... the Federal Circuit affirmed awarding fees and double costs to his clients. On remand, on the cross appeal filed on behalf of clients, plaintiffs were declared to have violated Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and recovered all of defense fees and expenses. The Court expressly recognized Mr. Soni’s skills: “[T]he Magistrate Judge finds that the lawyering most decisive to the outcome, and the most helpful to the court, was done by Surjit P. Soni and his firm. His preparation was immaculate, though no more than necessary given the stakes and complexities. His clients proved to be, and they should have been, most willing to pay his fees and expenses. There is no evidence that he has overbilled in any respect; in fact, his accounting is so precise that the Magistrate Judge is able to, and he will disallow certain itemized claims. All members of the bar of this court are presumed honorable and wholly accurate in their representations to the court. Mr. Soni has proved the validity of the presumption throughout the proceedings by weighing every word and proofing every representation. His accounting contained in the Brico defendants' claim is a veritable model.†141 F.R.D. 281 (C.D.Cal.,1991.)
Archives of Milton H. Greene, LLC v. CMG Worldwide, Marilyn Monroe LLC and Anna Strasberg
N/AOUTCOME: Marilyn Monroe's Right of Publicity Invalidated
Marilyn Monroe LLC ("MMLLC") claimed to own Marilyn Monroe's post-mortem right of publicity. The Archives of Milton H. Greene and Tom Kelley Studios, Inc. maintained that MMLLC did not own such a right ... . Court held that MMLLC could not claim ownership of Marilyn's right of publicity under California law which only extends the right to California citizens because MMLLC's principals and its predecessor's interest had asserted in judicial proceedings that Marilyn was a domiciliary of New York when she died. MMLLC lost annual income from licensing valued by Forbes at between $6 million and $8 million per year.
Doug Menuez Photography, Inc. v. Macy's West, Inc.
N/AOUTCOME: Successfully prosecuted claim
Successfully prosecuted claim for copyright infringement and loss of original photographic transparencies.
Dreamwerks Production Group, Inc. v. SKG Studio, d/b/a/ Dreamworks S.K.G.
N/AOUTCOME: Successful prosecution
Successfully prosecuted reverse trademark confusion case on behalf of movie convention production company against major movie studio.
Kulick v. Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
N/AOUTCOME: Successful prosecution
Successfully prosecuted claim by tour band for bootlegging against Sony Music for publishing live recordings from Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" tour without permission and without giving credit to arti ... sts.
Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc. v. Movie Market
N/AOUTCOME: Successful claim for copyright infringement
Successfully prosecuted claim for copyright infringement of photographs of Marilyn Monroe.
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