PatriciaOchman

Associate

Cleveland + 1.216.586.7145

Patricia Ochman focuses her practice on complex tort, intellectual property, and antitrust litigation. She represents corporate clients in federal and state courts and has experience in various aspects of discovery and pretrial litigation.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Patricia practiced law in Montreal, Canada, where she concentrated on litigation, indigenous law, constitutional law, and natural resource law. She has published peer-reviewed articles and has presented at conferences, seminars, and other events in Canada and in Northern Europe. She was a researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM/Arctic Centre) in Rovaniemi, Finland and a member of the Fiji Draft Mineral Act review team of the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center. She has served internships at the Prosecutor's Office of Summit County, Ohio and at the U.N. Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity, as part of the Working Group on Art. 8(j).

Patricia is a member of the CMBA Ethics and Professionalism Committee and of the Finnish Heritage Museum of Fairport Harbor, Ohio. She previously served on the board of directors of the Horses and Humans Research Foundation.

Experience

  • Cardinal Health wins Seventh Circuit affirmance of dismissal of antitrust conspiracy claimsIn an antitrust conspiracy case, the Seventh Circuit affirmed across-the-board the dismissal with prejudice of a second amended complaint (“SAC”) filed against Jones Day client Cardinal Health, Inc. (“Cardinal”).
  • Yazaki successfully resolves automaker lawsuit alleging price-fixing and bid riggingJones Day represented Yazaki Corporation and Yazaki North America, Inc. in successfully resolving a civil antitrust lawsuit brought by an automaker following Jones Day's filing of motions for summary judgment and to exclude the plaintiff's sole expert witness.
  • NVIDIA acquires Mellanox Technologies for approximately $7 billionJones Day advised NVIDIA Corporation in its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., an Israel-based leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage.