President of the German Patent and Trademark Office

Eva Schewior has been President of the German Patent and Trademark Office since February 1, 2023.

Schewior studied law at the University of Mannheim. From 1993 to 1994, she spent a year studying at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree. In this context, she dealt, among other things, with U.S. and international patent law.

Ms. Schewior completed her legal clerkship in the district of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. After her second state examination, she joined the Federal Ministry of Justice in 1994 and passed through several stations as a legal advisor. During a secondment to the Permanent Representation of Germany to the European Union in Brussels, she was responsible for civil law dossiers, including intellectual property law. In 2004, she was appointed head of unit and initially worked in the administration of justice. Later, she moved to the unit in charge of legal issues related to new technologies in the natural sciences and bioethics. In 2010, she assumed responsibility for the administrative affairs of the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office.

In 2015 until January 2023, Schewior headed a unit in the BMJ in the law of obligations with a focus on banking law. Her work focused on the negotiation of directives in the European Union and their subsequent transposition into German law.

In addition, Schewior was a member of the Administrative Council of the Examination Office of the Federal Chamber of Notaries for the Federal Ministry of Justice from mid-2020 to January 2023.