Jayme Partridge

Jayme Partridge

ATTORNEYS & STAFF

Jayme Partridge

Jayme Partridge

Partner

Phone: 646-971-0685
Email: jpartridge@bochner.law

Biography

Jayme Partridge, a veteran IP litigator nationally recognized for her skills in the courtroom, focuses her practice on complex, high-stakes litigation matters, including patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation.

Combining proven trial advocacy skills and an engineering background, she has years of stand-up experience before judges, juries and mediators. Always guided by her clients’ business objectives, she has tried and resolved dozens of high-profile competitor-to-competitor disputes for global companies.

Jayme has extensive experience handling litigation matters related to a wide range of industries and technologies. Among other areas, she has worked on cases related to fiber optics, chemical processes, ethylene oxide catalysis, olefin catalysis, filtering technologies, characterization of polyolefin molecules, motor oil additives, hydraulic fracturing of hydrocarbon formations, downhole tools for oil and gas wells, offshore drilling rigs, drill bits, computer hardware and software, and high speed internet services,

Jayme is widely recognized as a leading IP practitioner by myriad industry observers, including Best Lawyers in America, Texas Lawyer Magazine, Women in the Law, Texas Women Lawyers, Texas’ Best Lawyers, Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers, and LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. She was named a leading international patent professional by Intellectual Asset Management/IAM Patent 1000.

Prior to joining Bochner, Jayme was in private practice in Houston as a member of several leading intellectual property litigation teams, including at Fish & Richardson, Norton Rose Fulbright, Baker Botts and Slusser, Wilson & Partridge. She has also served as in-house IP litigation counsel for ExxonMobil. Before law school, Jayme worked as an engineer at Exxon for six years and was licensed as a petroleum engineer in Texas. She is also a registered patent attorney.

Jayme completed her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M, cum laude, where she was a member of the national engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, and the national mechanical engineering honor society, Pi Tau Sigma. She later earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, with high honors, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, and. Jayme is currently a member of the Circle of Leaders at University of Texas Center for Women in Law.

Practice Areas

  • IP Litigation
  • Patent Ligation 
  • Trade Secret Litigation 
  • Post-Grant
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Trade Secret Litigation
  • Trademark, Copyright, and Media Litigation

Industries

  • Aerospace and Defense Chemicals
  • Cleantech
  • Consumer Products
  • Digital Media and E-Commerce 
  • Electrical and Computer Technology 
  • Energy and Petrochemical 
  • Financial and Business Services 
  • Internet
  • Manufacturing 
  • Telecommunications

Education

  • J.D. with high honors, Order of the Coif, University of Texas Law School (1991)
  • B.S. cum laude, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University (1982)

Admissions

  • Texas
  • United States Patent & Trademark Office

Honors/Recognition

  • Best Lawyer – The Best Lawyers in America (2009-present)
  • The World’s Leading Patent Professionals – Intellectual Asset Management / IAM Patent 1000
  • Best Lawyer – Women in the Law (2016-present)
  • Best Lawyer – Texas Women Lawyers (2015-present)
  • Best Lawyer – Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Litigation – Texas’ Best Lawyers (2009-present)
  • Top Attorneys in Texas (2019)
  • Texas Top Women Super Lawyer for Intellectual Property – Litigation (2019) 
  • Top Women Attorneys in Texas (2018-2019)
  • “Women in Energy” list – Texas Lawyer Magazine (2016)
  • Texas Super Lawyer for Intellectual Property Litigation – Thomson Reuters (2012- 2018)
  • AV Rated – LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
  • Texas Bar Foundation
  • American Bar Association
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
  • Houston Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
  • Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property Inn of Court, Master of the Bench
  • University of Texas, Center for Women in Law, Circle of Leaders
  • The University of Texas at Austin Littlefield Society