Membership
Application for Membership
Membership in the GRUR association is open to all persons interested in intellectual property law. Membership in other professional associations is not an obstacle. GRUR welcomes members from all over the word. It currently counts over 350 international members from 36 different nations worldwide (12.11.2013).
Membership applications can be made with the online application form "My GRUR". In this completely new members area of GRUR every member can edit its data by its own. This new service of GRUR expands the possibilities of communication with the members and among themselves.
To the online application form.
Benefits for Members
GRUR members receive an annual, detailed, printed list of members containing the addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses of themembers and of the competent national and international authorities, courts and organizations, as well as of university chairs and institutes.
Members can obtain the journals GRUR, GRUR Int. and GRUR-RR at preferential conditions; the same applies to the English-language journal "International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law" - IIC - published by the Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht. All journals can also be obtained on DVD (updates only) and via Beck-Online of the publishing company C. H. Beck oHG. GRUR as of 1948, GRUR Int. as of 1952 and IIC from 1970 onwards. From 2020, the journal GRUR International is also available to readers through Oxford University Press (OUP).
Furthermore, members pay reduced fees for participation in the GRUR seminars conducted in cooperation with the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie.
Membership Dues
| 1. For individual person | 120,00 euros* |
| 2. For individual person (discounted**) Patent agent candidates, persons receiving practical training in judicial or other legal work after having passed the first state examination, scientific employees, students | 25,00 euros |
| 3. For public authorities, associations, corporations | 155,00 euros |
| 4. For companies a) with up to 500 employees b) with more than 500 employees | 300,00 euros 600,00 euros |
* from 1 January 2025 Euro 160.00 in accordance with the resolution of the General Assembly of 20 September 2024
** The reduced membership fee applies to members whose main activity is assigned to one of the above-mentioned occupations (point 2.).
Membership fee regulations according to the resolution of the General Board of GRUR from October 12th, 2016, updated with effect from 1 January 2025 by resolution of the General Board of GRUR from September 20th, 2024.