DPMA: growing in strength

At first glance, it might seem unlikely that the EU ‘patent package’, leading to the eventual creation of a Unified Patent Court (UPC) and a unitary patent, would create a sense of optimism among national patent offices.
But it has for Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer, president of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), Europe’s biggest national patent office, ranking sixth among the largest IP authorities in the world.