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 has assisted in several pro bono adoption filings through Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor. She also teaches Open Source Licensing and Computer & Cyberspace Law courses at the University of Dayton and the University of Cincinnati, respectively.
Ms. Schalnat 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.