BETTEN & RESCH is highly active in various German and international organizations within the IP field. We are members of:

AIPPI - AIPLA - ALAI - CNIPA - DGRI (German Association of Computer Law) - DJJV (German Japanese Law Association) - ECTA - epi - FICPI - GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright) - INTA - LES - UNION - VPP - JTA

Further, BETTEN & RESCH also strives to actively participate in the development of law and jurisprudence within the IP field. For example, BETTEN & RESCH organised the

UNION Round Table Conference 1997
"Patenting of Computer Software"
held at the EPO

in which more than 100 experts world-wide participated.

BETTEN & RESCH also contributed to the planning and conception of the conference of the German Lawyers Association

IT Lawyers Conference 3.0
"Patentability of Software"
held in Munich in November 2000

Attorneys of the firm actively participate in the developments of intellectual property in responsible positions in committees of several organizations:

Jürgen Betten is, e.g., member of the FICPI Trademark Group (CET), member of the Committees Q 132 (Computer Software, Information Networks, Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Circuits) and Q 133 (Patenting of Computer Software) of AIPPI, and member of the Trademark and Unfair Competition Commission of GRUR and was from 1990 - 2005 President of the Computer Software Commission of UNION.

Dr. Alexander Esslinger is, e.g., Chairman of the CET Group on the Electronic Commerce of FICPI, and member of the Computer Software Commission of the German Patent Attorneys' Insititute.