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 sector:

  • Marketing, BD, communications and client development professionals in IP firms and IP practices within full-service firms
  • Marketing and BD professionals in IP service providers and adjacent businesses
  • IP practitioners (partners and firm owners) who do marketing and BD work themselves

Membership is free. There is no joining fee and no annual subscription.

How to BECOME AN IPMA MEMBER

Free newsletter member.

You are free to choose how to become an IPMA member. Our primary goal is to engage with our members online and offline. We mainly do that via our free newsletter and LinkedIn group page.

Anyone who subscribes to our newsletter or joins our LinkedIn group page is classed as a member. Newsletter members get notifications and practical information straight into their inbox.

LinkedIn group member.

We also drive and encourage meaningful, practical conversations and knowledge sharing on our LinkedIn group page. Request to join and we will approve your membership if you fit our membership criteria.

Not on LinkedIn? Get in touch and we will add you another way.