Membership
Membership of ECTA is reserved to individuals
Various categories of members exist, according to the following criteria:
Ordinary Members
Nationals of one of the Member States of the EU having their place of business or employment in a Member State and being entitled to practice before the OHIM (Articles 88 and 89 of the EC Regulation).
Associate Members
- Person who is not a national of a Member State, but who has his place of business or employment in a Member State and is entitled to practice as a professional representative before the Trade Marks Registry of the Member State in which he has his place of business or employment, or
- A person who is entitled to practice as a professional representative before the Trade Marks Registry of the country outside the EU in which he has his place of business or employment; and,
- in each case: unless he is so entitled by possession of a special professional qualification, has habitually so practised for at least five years; and be involved in the Trade Mark matters of the EU or Member States of the EU.
Affiliate Members
A person who, otherwise than as a professional representative, is involved in Trademark matters in the EC or Member States
Student Members
Nationals of one of the Member States who:
- shall be an undergraduate or post-graduate undertaking a full time course of study at a university in a Member State, and
- shall have an interest in the law of trade marks and designs.
Recently graduated Members
Nationals of one of the Member States who,
- have completed a full time course of study and graduated from a university in a Member State. Application to be made within three years of completion of course,
- shall have an interest in the law of trade marks and designs.
Retired Members
Persons that have been an Ordinary Member, an Associate member or an Affiliate member for a continuous period not less than five years and are no longer active in trade mark practice.
