Professionals

Benjamin L. Singer

Since founding Singer LLP over a decade ago, Benjamin has served as trial counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property cases throughout the United States. Both Benjamin and Singer LLP have been named by Chambers & Partners USA for Excellence in Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets Law in California in 2024. He has also been selected as a Top 500 Leading Litigator in America by Lawdragon 2025, a Best Lawyer in 2024 and 2025 for Trade Secrets Law, a 2024 Top IP Lawyer by the Daily Journal, a 2023 Top Trade Secrets Lawyer by the Daily Journal, and a 2024 Northern California Super Lawyer for Business and IP Litigation (his fourth consecutive selection as a Super Lawyer after being recognized as a Rising Star three times). He has also been selected for membership in the Lawyers of Distinction and as a California winner of the IP Disputes award from International Advisory Experts. In describing working with him, Benjamin's clients note that they “trust him” and laud his “rare combination of instinct, intelligence, leadership and technical aptitude” and “commitment” to their problems as if “they were his own.”

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:

  • Applied Materials, Inc. v. Mattson Technology, Inc. (Cal. Super.) – Serving as lead counsel for defendant in their defense of a trade secret misappropriation claim relating to advanced tools and techniques for semiconductor fabrication.
  • Apalone, Inc. v Schutt Sports et al. (C.D. Ill.) – Serving as lead counsel for defendant in their defense of a patent infringement claim relating to helmet design.
  • ONET Global Inc. v. Boundary Layer Technologies, Inc. (Cal. Super) – Serving as lead counsel for defendant in trade secret dispute relating to stabilization of hydrofoil vehicles that ‘fly’ over the water.
  • Representing a start-up in the AI testing space against a departed executive in a trade secret dispute.
  • Representing a real estate company against former employees in a dispute over misuse of confidential information.
  • Serving as co-counsel for one the world’s largest chip manufacturers in a trade secret and licensing dispute being arbitrated at JAMS

 

 

 

Notable Matters

Since founding Singer IP, Benjamin has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in complex, high-stakes intellectual property cases.

Some of Benjamin’s trade secret representations include:

  • Applied Materials, Inc. v. Lai et al. (JAMS) – Served as lead trial counsel for individual defendant in their defense of a trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract claims relating to advanced techniques for semiconductor fabrication.
  • Anduril Industries, Inc. v Salient Motion Inc. et al. (C.D. Cal) – Served as lead counsel for Salient Motion and two of its co-founders in their defense of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract claims relating to algorithms and code utilized by advanced motor controllers.
  • Propoint Solutions, LLC v. Regis Corp. et al. (N.D. Cal.)  – Served as lead counsel for former Chief Technology Officer in his defense of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract claims relating to POS software and related database schema.
  • Agilent, Inc. v. Twist, Inc. (Cal. Super.) – Represented former Chief Financial Officer in her defense of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract claims relating to the alleged exfiltration of trade secret information pertaining to the use of ink jet printer technology to synthesize oligonucleotides.
  • Veritas Investments, Inc. v. Lantern Group Realty (Cal. Supr.) – Served as lead counsel for defendants in a trade secret misappropriation action relating to a predictive real-estate model.
  • Consilium Wealth Management et al. v. Clarity Wealth et al. (Cal .Supr.) – Served as lead counsel for a wealth management firm asserting a trade secret misappropriation claim again former employees relating to a predictive investment model.

Some of Benjamin’s patent representations include:

  • Deep Web, L.L.C. v. Ask Media Group, LLC (N.D. Cal.) – Served as 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.) –Served as lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to BLE technology.
  • Blackbird Tech, LLC v. Arro, Inc. et al. (D. Del.) – Served as lead counsel for defendants in a patent infringement action relating to GPS enabled computing.
  • Thermolife International, LLC v. NBTY, Inc. et al. (S.D. Cal.) – Served as lead counsel for NBTY, Inc., Solgar, Inc., United States Nutrition, Inc., and Sundown Naturals in a patent infringement action relating to dietary supplements.
  • Qommerce Systems, LLC v. Ancestry.com (E.D. Tex.) – Served as lead counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to e-commerce technology.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Some of Benjamin’s trademark representations include:

  • CAFE Foundation, Inc. v. Seeley (N.D. Cal.) – Served as lead counsel for defendant in Lanham Act and trademark infringement action.
  • 24/7 Customer, Inc. v. 24-7 Intouch et al. (N.D. Cal.) – Served as 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) – Served as lead counsel for defendant in a trademark infringement action relating to media production.
  • Michael Zschoche v. Locale Lifestyle Magazine et al. (S.D. Cal.) – Served as lead counsel for defendants in a trademark infringement action relating to periodicals.
  • 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 contract representations include:

  • Bunsow De Mory LLP v. North Forty Consulting LLC (N.D. Cal.) – Served as lead counsel for plaintiff in breach of contract action.
  • Creative Mobile Technologies LLC v. Flywheel Software Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Served as lead counsel for plaintiff in a breach of contract and tortious interference action.
  • PACT XPP Technologies AG v. Alliacense Limited, LLC (Cal. Supr.) – Served as lead counsel for plaintiff in a breach of contract action in Santa Clara.
  • Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation v. Robert Benton et al. (S.D. Cal.) – Served as lead counsel for individual defendant in a breach of contract action relating to inventorship rights.

 

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