Region Area

Solicitors

Jia Schulz-Cao

Work Department

Intellectual Property, Life Sciences & Healthcare, TMC

Position

Lawyer

Career

Jia Schulz-Cao is a lawyer in the fields of Intellectual Property, Life Sciences & Healthcare and TMC - Technology, Media & Telecommunications. His practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious trademark and patent law as well as unfair competition.

Jia Schulz-Cao has been a member of the Intellectual Property team since 2012. He advises international and national clients, particularly in the life sciences, agriscience, consumer and luxury goods, food, media and telecommunications sectors. After studying law at the Universities of Vienna and Sheffield, Schulz-Cao was a Senior Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing. He then worked as a trainee lawyer at the European Patent Office in Munich in the European and International Legal Affairs Department. Schulz-Cao has extensive knowledge of Chinese intellectual property law and holds a doctorate in the field of Chinese trademark law. He is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) and is therefore regularly entrusted with projects related to China. Schulz-Cao regularly publishes in professional journals and lectures on intellectual property, especially with a focus on China.

Languages

German, English, French

Memberships

Austrian Bar Association Association for Chinese Lawyers in Europe (ACLE) Joseph von Sonnenfels Center für die ökonomische Analyse des Rechts

Education

2021 – Zulassung als Rechtsanwalt in Österreich 2019 – Dr. iur., Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Wien 2016/17 – Senior Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University Law School, Peking 2015 – Mag. iur., Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Wien 2012/13 – Erasmus, University of Sheffield, UK