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.

Membership applications and the corresponding enquiries should be addressed to the GRUR general secretariat and business office. An online application is also possible.

For individual person
Admission form*: online | pdf

For public authorities, associations, corporations, companies
Admission form*: online | pdf

If you are already a member of the association and you wish to correct your data, please use the following form:
Statement of changes form*: online | pdf

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-Institute for Intellectual Property Competition and Tax Law. All journals can also be obtained on CD-ROM, DVD and online, GRUR as of 1948, GRUR Int. as of 1952 and IIC from 1970 onwards. More information on the GRUR publications can be found here (Link to "publications").

Furthermore, members pay reduced fees for participation in the GRUR seminars conducted in cooperation with the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie.

Membership Dues

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