Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer (born 10 February 1957 in

Bad Camberg Bad Camberg () is, with 14,500 inhabitants, the second largest town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany, as well as the southernmost town in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Gießen (region), Gießen. It is located in the eastern Taunus in th ...

Taunus The Taunus () is a mountain range in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located north west of Frankfurt and north of Wiesbaden. The tallest peak in the range is '' Großer Feldberg'' at 878 m; other notable peaks are '' Kleiner Feldberg' ...

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) is a former president of the ''

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (; abbreviation: DPMA) is the German national patent office, with headquarters in Munich, and offices in Berlin and Jena. In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were patent examiners. Funct ...

'' (DPMA) (), a post she held from 1 January 2009 until her retirement in January 2023. Bundesministerium der Justiz (Federal Ministry of Justice, Germany), ''Amtsübergabe beim DPMA: Rudloff-Schäffer folgt auf Schade'', Press release, Berlin, January 15, 2009. Consulted on January 17, 2009. She studied

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and

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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 the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

. She retired at the end of January 2023 and was succeeded by Eva Schewior. Rudloff-Schäffer was the first woman to head the German Patent and Trade Mark Office "in the 145-year history of the office".

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1957 births German women civil servants Jurists from Hesse Living people People from Limburg-Weilburg {{Germany-law-bio-stub