Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer

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Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer (born February 10, 1957 in Bad Camberg ) is a German lawyer and has been President of the German Patent and Trademark Office since January 2009 .

Life

After studying law, politics and journalism in Mainz, she worked from 1984 to 1991 as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law and at the Institute for Commercial Legal Protection at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the Federal Ministry of Justice , she then worked as a consultant and later head of department, inter alia, for patent, design and trademark law. In 2001, she moved to the German Patent and Trademark Office as head of the legal department, where she became head of the main department for trademarks and designs in 2006 and president of the office on January 1, 2009.

Positions

Rudloff-Schäffer rejects the patentability of software. With its authority, it supports the expansion of the patent system in China.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita on the DPMA website ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Creativity is our raw material ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Interview in the Frankfurter Rundschau from June 30, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Rudloff-Schäffer, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the DPMA
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Camberg