Application for Membership
Anyone interested in the further development of industrial property rights and copyright law can apply for membership in the association. Membership in other professional associations does not constitute an obstacle. GRUR welcomes members from all over the world and currently has over 315 international members from 34 countries worldwide (as of 17 July 2025).
You can apply for membership using the electronic application form under ‘My GRUR’. In this completely redesigned member area of GRUR, you can now make changes to your data at any time. This new GRUR service expands the possibilities for communication with and among members.
To the online application form.
Benefits for Members
GRUR members receive a detailed printed membership directory each year with addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses of members as well as the relevant national and international authorities, courts and organisations, and also of university chairs and institutes.
Members can purchase the journals GRUR, GRUR Int., GRUR-RR, GRUR-Patent and GRUR-Prax at preferential rates; the same applies to the English-language journal ‘International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law’ (IIC), which is published by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law. In addition, Beck-Verlag provides electronic access to all journals. From 2020, the journal GRUR International will also be available to readers via our international partner Oxford University Press (OUP).
Members pay reduced participation fees for GRUR seminars organised in cooperation with the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie.
Membership Dues
| 1. For individual person | 160,00 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.