Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer

Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer (born 10 February 1957 in Bad Camberg/Taunus, West Germany ) is a former president of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA) , a post she held from 1 January 2009 until her retirement in January 2023. She studied law, politics and media studies and was, after the second legal civil service examination, employed as academic employee at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law and at the Institut for the Protection of Industrial Property at LMU Munich. Rudloff-Schäffer was the first woman to head the German Patent and Trademark Office "in the 145-year history of the office".