Membership
Join the IP Marketing Alliance.
IP Marketing Alliance (IPMA) is a global community for marketing and business development professionals working in intellectual property. Membership gives you access to people experiencing the same challenges or questions you have and the solutions.
What you get
Four things membership gives you.
01
Insightful events
Online and in-person events on a range of topics, including legal directories, marketing and BD strategies, new technology trends, and professional development.
02
A peer network
Direct access to marketing and BD professionals across different firms and service providers worldwide.
03
Shared knowledge
Benchmarks, templates and approaches members exchange openly under the Chatham House Rule.
04
Visibility
Opportunities to speak, contribute thought leadership and raise your profile in the IP community.
Eligibility
Who can join.
Membership is open to anyone with marketing or business development responsibility in the intellectual property industry:
- Marketing, BD, and communications professionals in patent and trade mark attorney firms, IP boutique law firms, and IP practices within full-service law firms
- Marketing and BD professionals in IP service providers
- IP practitioners (partners and firm owners) who do marketing and BD work themselves
- External marketing and BD professionals who work for any of the above
Membership is free. There is no joining fee and no annual subscription.
How to BECOME AN IPMA MEMBER
Two ways to join.
There is no application and no fee. Subscribe to the newsletter, join the LinkedIn group, or do both. Either one makes you a member.
Join the LinkedIn group
This is where the day to day conversation happens. Practical questions, what worked, what did not. Request to join and we will approve you if you meet the criteria above.
Not on LinkedIn? The newsletter below is enough, or get in touch.
Become a newsletter member
One email per session, plus the occasional practical note. You can ask to be removed at any time. See our privacy policy.
Questions
Questions, answered.
Membership is open to marketing, business development, communications and client development professionals in IP firms and practices, to marketing and BD professionals at IP service providers, and to IP practitioners who handle marketing and business development themselves.
Nothing. There is no joining fee and no annual subscription. Membership is free.
Subscribe to the newsletter, join the IPMA LinkedIn group, or do both. Either one makes you a member.
Sessions run online, with in-person gatherings when the community meets at industry events. Registration is handled through Microsoft Teams.
Discussions in the community are held under the Chatham House Rule: you are free to use what you hear, but you may not reveal who said it or where they work without their permission.
No, it is optional. It is an ordinary WhatsApp group chat, which means members of the group can see each other’s phone numbers, and we tell you that before you give us your number.