Dr. Carolin Wollschlaeger

Patent Attorney

Carolin Wollschlaeger is a German and European Patent Attorney. Her practice focuses on biotechnological and pharmaceutical inventions. She works on litigation matters as well as questions of validity and freedom-to-operate. She has further experience in drafting, (worldwide) prosecuting patent applications and licensing issues.

Carolin’s background is in biotechnology and microbiology. She has worked alongside leading international experts at Imperial College London and Institut Pasteur.

Before joining HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER, Carolin worked for patent attorney firms in Cologne and Düsseldorf.

  • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
    • Institute of Professional Representatives Before the European Patent Office (EPI)
    • Patentsanwaltskammer
    • Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Intellectuelle (FICPI)
  • PUBLICATIONS
      • Kanz/Gspandl/Wollschlaeger, Rechtsbestand von Pharmapatenten der „zweiten Generation“: zwischen Plausibilität und erfinderischer Tätigkeit – eine Zwickmühle?, Festschrift für Thomas Kühnen, Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2024, 515
      • Kanz/Wollschlaeger, Das EPG Berufungsgericht zur Frage der erfinderischen Tätigkeit in Sachen NanoString/10x Genomics, GRUR 2024, 662
      • Wollschlaeger et al., Simultaenous and Independent Dual Site-Specific Self-Labeling of Recombinant Antibodies, Bioconjug Chem. 2018, 29(11):3586-3594.
    • Wollschlaeger et al., Distinct and redundant roles of exonuclease in Cryptococcus neoformans: implications for virulence and mating, Fungal Genet Biol. 2014, 73:20-28.
    • Janbon et al., Analysis of the genome and transcriptome of Cryptococcus neoformans grubii reveals complex RNA expression and microevolution leading to virulence attenuation, PLoS Genet. 2014, 10(4):e1004261.
    • Goebels et al., Introns regulate gene expression in Cryptococcus neoformans in a Pab2p dependent pathway, PLoS Genet. 2013, 9(8):e1003686.

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The facts

Languages

German, English, French

Education

European Qualifying Examination (2019)
German Patent Attorney (2019)
FernUniversität in Hagen (Law for Patent Attorneys, 2017)
Université Paris-Cité/Paris 7 (Doctorat en Microbiologie procaryote et eucaryote, 2014)
RWTH Aachen University (M.Sc., Biotechnology, 2011)
Imperial College London (Erasmus student, 2009)
RWTH Aachen University (B.Sc., Biotechnology, 2008)

Focus

Admission

2019