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Ria Farrell Schalnat

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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.

Cincinnati

Practice Areas
Education
  • Northern Kentucky University
    B.S., 1995
    Computer Science and International Studies
    Concentration in Russian Studies
    National Collegiate Honors

    University of Nebraska

    National Collegiate Honors Council Semester: A Living Laboratory in Czechoslovakia, at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    University of Dayton School of Law
    J.D., 1999
    Magna cum Laude

    Law Review Writer & Web Editor

Hobbies
  • Chess, Photography, Singing/Voice, Yoga and Foreign Languages (particularly Russian)
Bar Memberships
  • Cincinnati Bar Association, 1999
  • Ohio Bar Association, 1999
Courts
  • Ohio Supreme Court, 1999

    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2000