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Jia Schulz-Cao

Registered UPC Representative

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Chinese
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Jia Schulz-Cao is a lawyer (senior associate) specialising in Intellectual Property, Life Sciences & Healthcare and Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMC). His work focuses on enforcement of cross-border IP infringements as well as licensing and transfer of IP rights. Furthermore, his expertise includes strategic advice in connection with all intellectual property rights and in unfair competition. Besides, he regularly advises on commercial law aspects.

He represents international and national clients, particularly from the life sciences, agroscience, consumer and luxury goods, food, media and telecommunications sectors.

After studying law at the University of Vienna and the University of Sheffield, UK, Jia Schulz-Cao was a Senior Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University’s Law School in Beijing. Subsequently, he worked as a trainee lawyer at the European Patent Office in Munich in the department of European and international legal affairs.

Jia Schulz-Cao has extensive knowledge of Chinese intellectual property law and completed a doctorate in Chinese trademark law. In addition, he is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) and is therefore regularly entrusted with China-related matters. Jia Schulz-Cao regularly publishes in academic journals and gives presentations about intellectual property laws.

Awards & Recognitions
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  • Quote
    ‘Jia Schulz-Cao, very experienced senior associate, approachable and quick.’
    Legal 500, 2025
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    'Jia Schulz-Cao works round the clock.'
    Legal 500, 2024

Publications

  • Schulz-Cao/Vautz, Einstweilige Verfügungen vor dem EPG – Erste Erkenntnisse, ecolex 3/2025, 212ff;
  • Schulz-Cao, UPC preliminary injunctions: insights from Vienna, Patent Lawyer Magazine October 2024, 6ff.
  • Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der chinesischen IP-Praxis – Fokus: Neuerungen im chinesischen Markenrecht, China Report 177–178/2020.
  • Das chinesische und österreichische Markenrecht – eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse (2019).

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
  • Association for Chinese Lawyers in Europe (ACLE)

Awards & Rankings

  • IP Stars 2025 - Shortlist Rising Star of the Year 2025
  • The Legal 500 2025 - Key Lawyer in Intellectual Property
  • The Legal 500 2024 - Key Lawyer in Intellectual Property
  • IP Stars 2024 – Rising Star
  • IP Stars 2023 – Rising Star

Education

  • 2021 – Admission to Austrian Bar 
  • 2019 – PH.D., Law, University of Vienna 
  • 2016/17 – Senior Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University Law School, Peking
  • 2015 – Mag.iur, Law, University of Vienna 
  • 2012/13 – Erasmus, University of Sheffield, UK
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