Eleanor
Farrell
Schalnat
Counsel
Ria Farrell Schalnat is a patent attorney with a technology focus in telecommunications, billing, and other software-oriented inventions. Substantive practice includes prosecution, litigation, due diligence reviews, including the review for a $335 million acquisition, and portfolio management. She has a B.S. in Computer Science and worked for several years as a programmer before obtaining her juris doctorate and joining Frost Brown Todd in 1999.
Ms. Schalnat was elected as President of the Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association (CincyIP) for the 2008-2009 term. She is also a member of the Intellectual Property Owners Subcommittee on Open Source.
Ms. Schalnat performs pro-bono legal services through Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor in the area of adoption law. She is an amateur chess player and enjoys singing in choirs.