Patrick J. Thomas, Esq.
Partner
Phone: 216-241-8333 x 126
Fax: 216-241-5890
E-mail: pthomas@rcp-attorneys.com
Patrick focuses his practice on litigation prosecution and defense. He represents clients on complex matters including real estate, business, construction, professional liability, environmental, employment, and intellectual property matters, including patent, trademark, copyright prosecution and litigation. He has successfully represented clients in trial and settlement in federal and state courts, courts of appeals, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, The U.S. EPA, the U.S. Trial and Trademark Appeal Board, national and international arbitration panels and professional licensing boards.
Notable trials and appeals include EPA and local regulatory compliance, business litigation and contract disputes, employment and workplace harassment, warehouse litigation and compliance, and patent, copyright and trademark litigation.
Patrick is a former assistant prosecuting attorney in the Major Trial Division of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, where he prosecuted homicides, sex crimes and other felonies in more than 90 jury trials as first chair. He graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Law in 2001 and Denison University in 1990. Prior to law school, Patrick worked as a research scientist in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where he designed, constructed and expressed recombinant human nervous system enzymes through the novel baculovirus expression system.
Patrick belongs to several professional and community organizations and is active as a musician. From 2008-2010, Patrick was the Mock Trial Instructor and Coach for Mayfield High School through the Ohio Supreme Court’s Center for Law-Related Education.
Bar Admissions
Supreme Court of Ohio, 2002
United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2003
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2011
United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2003
United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, 2010
United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2010
Education
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 2001
Denison University, B.S. Biology, 1990
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1988
