Southern District Hands Chevron a $15.6M Win in Trademark Infringement Case

A Houston federal judge on Thursday awarded Chevron U.S.A. and affiliate Chevron Intellectual Property $15.6 million in a final judgment that found Houston-based Sariel Petroleum and several individuals infringed on Chevron’s trademarks maliciously, willfully, fraudulently and deliberately. 

The final judgment, issued by U.S. District Judge David Hittner of the Southern District of Texas, follows a one-week trial in February that resulted in a Houston federal jury awarding Chevron $1.1 million in disgorged profits as a result of the trademark infringement. The court, which ruled on most of the issues pre-trial, added the remaining $14.5 million in Thursday’s ruling.