Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer

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

Life

After studying law, politics and journalism in Mainz it was from 1984 to 1991 research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law and the Institute for Intellectual Property Law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. The Federal Ministry of Justice, she was then lecturer and later Head of Unit, among others for patent, design patent and trademark law. In 2001 she became Head of the Legal Department with the German Patent and Trademark Office and was there in 2006 Head of the Department for trademarks and designs and on 1 January 2009, the President of the Office.

Positions

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