Ria
Farrell
Schalnat
Counsel
Ria Farrell Schalnat is a patent attorney with a technology focus in telecommunications, billing, and other software-oriented inventions. Her substantive practice includes prosecution, general software and open source licensing, due diligence reviews for mergers/acquisitions, 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. She has taught law school courses in Open Source Licensing, Computer & Cyberspace Law and Patent Prosecution History Analysis.
Ms. Schalnat was elected as President of the Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association (CincyIP) for both 2008 and 2009. She previously served as Vice-President of the organization. She is also a member of the Intellectual Property Owners Subcommittee on Open Source.
Ms. Schalnat oversaw several pro bono adoption filings through Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor.
Ms. Schalnat also enjoys singing in choirs and is an amateur chess player. She took first place in the 2009 Cardinal Open Chess Tournament for the U1000 Division.