Source: https://www.bzbm.com/attorney/benjamin-k-riley/
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 22:52:23+00:00

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Ben Riley is a Principal of the firm and serves on its Executive Committee. He has tried nearly 30 cases to verdict including jury trials, court trials, and complex arbitrations. His practice focuses on Intellectual Property Litigation, including patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and license disputes. He also has an active practice in Business Litigation, including class action defense, defense of “consumer claims” under the Lanham Act and unfair competition statutes, accounting issues, and real property litigation.
Mr. Riley also represents companies in connection with director and officer, securities, fiduciary duty, and internal investigation issues, and obtained a defense verdict in a six-week securities class action jury trial. Finally, Mr. Riley represents private clients and charities in Trust and Estate Litigation.
Mr. Riley has lectured and published extensively as to Intellectual Property, Business Litigation, Trust & Estate Litigation, and trial practice skills. He is an expert in commercial arbitration law and procedure and regularly handles important cases before the world’s leading arbitration forums. He also has an active practice as a Mediator for the Northern District of California and for private litigants.
In In Re Trust of Robert A. Naify, Mr. Riley is defending four petitions challenging trust dispositions, involving issues of alleged oral contracts, separate and community property, and trust termination. Claimants seek in excess of $1 billion.
In Cloud Cruiser Arbitration, Mr. Riley prosecuted breach of license claims involving database software for monitoring and use of cloud computing.
In Netlist v. Diablo, Mr. Riley represented plaintiff in the trial of trade secret, patent and trademark claims involving HyperCloud® LR-DIMM memory module technology.
In Wells Fargo v. ABD, Mr. Riley represented the defendants in a trademark case over his client’s business name, twice defeating Wells Fargo’s motions for preliminary injunction. 2014 WL 4312021.
In Geron v. ViaCyte, Mr. Riley successfully defended a Section 146 appeal of a patent interference action based on the PTO Board of Appeals’ finding of lack of enablement.
In Scicom v. Actuate, Mr. Riley prosecuted a copyright and breach of contract action concerning the misuse of database software.
In Impinj v. Synopsys, Mr. Riley represented the Claimant in a JAMS arbitration regarding the rights and restrictions under an Asset Purchase Agreement and the sale of non-volatile memory semiconductor technology.
Mr. Riley successfully defended Washington Mutual, JP Morgan and Raytheon in disputes over copyright and software license agreements concerning database software.
In Juarez et al. v. Jani-King, Mr. Riley defeated class certification in a matter involving the alleged violation of California wage and hour laws asserted against world’s largest janitorial franchise companies. An appeal of the matter is pending.
In Sun Microsystems v. Azul, Mr. Riley represented the plaintiff in connection with patent, trade secret, contract and interference claims brought against its former employees concerning JAVA-based software and hardware for parallel chip computing.
In Broadband Holdings v. Norwest, Mr. Riley obtained summary judgment for former directors and venture capital shareholders in a breach of fiduciary duty and fraud action.
In Forge v. National Semiconductor, Mr. Riley obtained a defense verdict for his client after a six-week class action jury trial alleging breach of fiduciary duty and Sections 11 and 12 securities law violations in connection with the manufacture of microprocessors.
In Soko Bukai v. YWCA, Mr. Riley successfully sued for breach of trust in connection with a historic building in San Francisco’s Japantown resulting in conveyance of the historic home of the Japanese YWCA to a community childcare organization.

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