Eleanor Maria Farrell Schalnat

About Eleanor Maria Farrell Schalnat

I am delighted to work with the Open Program Office of Hewlett Packard Enterprise This role is the culmination of my prior lives as a computer programmer, lawyer and adjunct professor specializing in intellectual property subjects including open source. Previously, I spent over three years at Amazon Web Services - Builder Tools, DevTools, Safety Engineering, Incident Management and Open Source. I served as General Counsel and Director of Intellectual Property for a mid-size software and data center company (Vora Ventures). I provided counsel, advice and representation to numerous clients and specialized in patent portfolio management and prosecution, intellectual property due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and software licensing for two regional law firms (Frost Brown Todd & Dinsmore). My technology practice built on my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and work experience as a computer programmer and ranged across billing, data management, customer relationship management, and speech technology applications. I spend additional time working on community initiatives for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the Department of Homeland Security (CISA), the Eclipse Foundation, and the Linux Foundation including the Community Health & Analytics in Open Source Software (CHAOSS) project.I am admitted to practice law in Ohio, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and in-house in Washington. While in private practice, I served for two years as President of CincyIP, a local bar association dedicated to intellectual property education. I served as adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Law and University of Dayton School of Law on subjects including Patent Litigation, Cyberspace Law and Open Source Licensing.

Experience

1. Principal Engineering Program Manager (Open Source)

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Apr 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• University of Dayton School of Law

  J.D., Intellectual Property

  1996 — 1999

• Northern Kentucky University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and International Studies

  1989 — 1995

• Charles University

  Semester Abroad, Czech Language History and Culture

  1992 — 1992

Skills

• Westlaw
• Cybersecurity
• Privacy Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Trademarks
• Legal Advice
• Appeals
• Software Licensing
• Legal Opinions
• Patent Litigation
• Strategy
• Legal Research
• Copyright Law
• Employment-Based Immigration
• Mediation
• Invention
• Contract Drafting
• Patents
• Trade Secrets
• Due Diligence
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Immigration Law
• Patentability
• Trademark Infringement
• Contract Negotiation
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Patent Law
• Legal Issues
• Data Privacy
• Corporate Law
• Intellectual Property
• Licensing
• Cyberlaw
• Patent Prosecution
• Prosecution