Lady Gaga is pursuing reimbursement of $232,484 (£172,183) in legal fees.
The performer spent the amount to prevail over a lawsuit alleging her Mayhem album infringed a trademark owned by Mayhem Surfboards.
She has described the case as a “publicity stunt.”
Lost Surfboards brought the suit last year, arguing that the album’s title would lead people to believe the surf brand endorsed it. A federal judge rejected the claim last month, finding that such confusion was unlikely.
In a sharply worded motion filed on Friday, Gaga’s lawyers argued that she should not be compelled to pay the legal costs incurred in defending the action.
They contended that the case was “never a legitimate lawsuit” and instead an improper attempt to “capitalise on the fame and popularity of Lady Gaga” by suing over “a common dictionary word.”
“A litigant should not be permitted to use the federal courts to launch a publicity stunt masquerading as a lawsuit against a high-profile artist,” Gaga’s attorney wrote in the filing, as reported by Billboard.
“Nor should it be allowed to wield the machinery of litigation as a means of extracting a settlement that the merits cannot justify. This lawsuit was both.”
When Lost Surfboards filed suit last year, its owners accused Gaga of displaying a “blatant disregard” for their trademark rights, asserting that her stylized red Mayhem logo bore similarities to theirs.
Gaga had previously secured a victory in December, when a judge denied Lost Surfboards’ request to halt the sale of Mayhem-branded products.
