Charlotte Vollenberg is a German-qualified lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) and associate in Quinn Emanuel's Berlin office. She joined the firm in 2025. Her practice focuses on commercial and patent litigation.
Prior to joining the bar, Charlotte conducted research and taught as a research assistant at the Chair of Intellectual Property Law at Humboldt University in Berlin. She also completed an LL.M. degree at New York University School of Law. Her academic work focused on international and European IP law, in particular patent and plant variety protection law, as well as legal theory and civil procedure law.
During her legal training, Charlotte gained experience in international trade law at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and advised a film production company in Vienna on copyright and broadcasting law issues.
- Berlin Court of Appeals
(Second State Examination, 2024) - New York University School of Law
(LL.M., 2022) - Humboldt University
(First State Examination, 2017)
The German Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin)
- German
- English
- International Conference on IP Protection for Plant Innovation, Amsterdam – Report, GRUR Int 2020, 735
- Protokoll der Sitzung des Fachausschusses für den Schutz von Pflanzenzüchtungen [Expert Committee on IP Protection in Plant Breeding, Protocol] (with Michael Kock), GRUR 2020, 154
- Written statement in re case no. G 3/19 – Art 164(2) / Pepper, Amicus Curiae Brief to the European Patent Office (with Axel Metzger and Herbert Zech), September 30, 2019
- Open Source Seeds – Approaches to IP in plant biological material, talk at International Summer School, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, July 2, 2019
- Genome Editing/CRISPR als Herausforderung für das Life Sciences-Recht [Genome Editing/CRISPR as a challenge to Life Sciences Law – Report on International Conference 2018 in Basel] (with Sven Vetter), JZ 2019, 347
- Patenting of Genome Editing Technologies, talk at Julius Kühn-Institut, Federeal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Berlin, September 4, 2018