Ronald St. Marie

Ronald M. St. Marie practices business litigation, with a particular focus on intellectual property rights (including trademarks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets), real estate disputes and corporate compliance. He has represented many foreign clients, particularly those from Taiwan and mainland China. Mr. St. Marie has unique experience in trademark disputes involving the Internet. In a recent matter, Mr. St. Marie successfully defended an Internet perfume retailer against trademark infringement and trademark dilution claims made by Internet giant eBay. eBay asserted that the use of the word bay by Mr. St. Marie’s client caused confusion and dilution. At trial, the district court held . against eBay, finding that his client’s mark was neither confusing nor diluting. Mr. St. Marie also succeeded in convincing the district court to enjoin eBay from using deceptive banner advertisements on Google.com. Mr. St. Marie prosecuted copyright and trademark claims on behalf of one of the leading developers of educational software, against a company that had agreed to translate English language software into Spanish and Arabic. He won a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction and summary judgment including a damages award in excess of $2.3 million and attorney fee award in excess of $200,000. Mr. St. Marie also has extensive experience in trade secret disputes. He defended a bank and its loan officer accused by a competing bank of misappropriation of trade secrets. The Plaintiff had sought damages of more than $500,000. After a nine-day trial, the judge found in favor of Mr. St. Marie’s clients on all charges. Prior to joining Doll Amir & Eley, LLP, Mr. St. Marie was a partner with the Chan Law Group LLP in Los Angeles and Ervin, Cohen & Jessup in Beverly Hills. He received a juris doctorate degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University at Northridge