Ria
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. She took 1st place in the 2009 Cardinal Open Chess Tournament for the U1000 Division.