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How to set up and manage your ip fray corporate master account

  1. Maximum flexibility and control: master accounts and subaccounts
  2. How to request a master account
  3. Master account registration link
  4. Do not share the registration link
  5. Confirmation of registration
  6. Login
  7. Adding a subaccount
  8. Any further questions?

1. Maximum flexibility and control: master accounts and subaccounts

Each organization that becomes a premium member receives one master account. The owner of the master account

  • can add (only from the same organization as per our Terms and Conditions) and remove subaccounts (up to an account-specific maximum number of seats), and
  • also has full access to ip fray‘s content.

The owner of a subaccount

  • has full access to ip fray‘s content, but
  • can’t add or remove others.

Each account (of any kind) is connected with an email address and has a password.

Neither kind of account can be used to edit law firm profiles directly. Only we can.

The corporate master account can be internally reassigned if need be.

2. How to request a master account

2.1 Who can have a master account

2.1.1 Eligibility for subscription sales

We sell subscriptions only (and in our sole discretion) to

  • companies,
  • law firms (including patent attorney firms), and
  • governmental entities (to the extent that the narrow exceptions set out in Subsection 2.1.2 (below) do not apply to them).

If you are in a country with a VAT (value added tax) system, we cannot sell you a subscription unless you provide us with your VAT and the reverse-charge mechanism applies or sales to your entity are generally VAT-exempt under your country’s laws.

2.1.2 Eligibility for complimentary subscriptions

We offer complimentary subscriptions (in our sole discretion) to the powers that be:

  • courts of law (or divisions, panels or chambers thereof) with subject-matter jurisdiction over patent infringement and/or validity;
  • quasi-judicial bodies of patent jurisprudence (e.g., USITC);
  • the judicial branches of patent offices (e.g., EPO BoA or USPTO PTAB);
  • competition enforcers or units thereof (e.g., U.S. FTC or DG COMP) with responsibility for competition enforcement in connection with patent licensing, patent assertions or standards development in the technology industry;
  • select policy makers (in parliamentary bodies and executive governments, including, where applicable, patent offices) who are directly involved with patent legislation and/or the oversight of a patent office.

Furthermore, we sometimes provide complimentary subscriptions in order to reciprocate commercially valuable favors extended to us or in anticipation thereof.

2.2 What to do if you are eligible for a master account

Reach out by email to sales @ this website’s domain. In that email, please state

  • your organization (along with an explanation and the country in which it is based, unless it is a safe assumption that we know it already) and
  • if it is a law firm, the number of UPC Representatives and the number of SEP Litigators (in each case including attorneys-at-law as well as patent attorneys).

2.3 Temporary account during the transitional period

During the transitional period, and recognizing how difficult it may be in parts of the world to make purchasing decisions during the summer vacation season, we wish to ensure that you will retain uninterrupted access.

Therefore, we will gladly provide you with a corporate master account when you express an interest in taking a subscription, without requiring you to make a legally binding commitment at that stage. Should you ultimately not take a subscription, there will be no cost involved.

However, those accounts are revocable. On or after September 15, 2025, we may deactivate any account in the absence of a subscription agreement. Before that date, we would do so only in special circumstances, such as a breach or suspicious activity.

At our earliest opportunity after

  • we see that your payment has arrived,
  • you have been granted a rare complimentary subscription or
  • you have (during the transitional period) expressed a non-binding interest in a subscription,

we send you a corporate account registration link. If you click on that one, you can fill out and submit a form that looks like this:

You can ignore the button labeled with “OFFLINE PAYMENT”. It may change its color if you move your mouse pointer over it, but it’s meaningless. It’s a feature of the Memberpress plugin that can’t be removed, but in this case there is is no other option (such as credit card payments).

Sharing the link outside your organization would not be allowed by our Terms & Conditions (which we send you along with or even prior to a subscription offer).

If any other person in your organization uses the same link, they will end up creating a separate master account. Normally, each organization should have only one master account. In the case of unusually large subscriptions (hundreds of seats), we may agree with you that you can set up an additional master account, but that would have to be discussed with us beforehand.

As we mentioned toward the end of the first section, the master account can always be reassigned within your organization. Sharing the registration link, however, would not result in reassignment.

5. Confirmation of registration

Upon submitting the registration form, you will receive a Welcome email. If you can’t find it, check your spam folder (or similar folders such as “Promotion”). But if you can’t find it, your account probably works anyway.

6. Login and logout

When you are presently logged in (meaning you have access to all content, and with a master account you are able to add and remove users), the rightmost part of the menu near the top will look like this:

On mobile devices, the layout is different. It’s a vertical menu.

If you have clicked on Logout, or you are not logged in yet, the same part of the menu looks like this:

Again, in mobile browsers the menu is arranged vertically. Just look for the icon (stylized person against blue background), and you will then find items like Login below that icon (possibly left-aligned, but you’ll find it below the icon).

If you click on Login, you see the following form:

The mathematical captcha is a feature of that Memberpress form. It won’t bother you often because normally you just remain logged in for a long time.

Below the “Log In” button, you can see the “Forgot Password” link. Even if you never had a password, but you know that you have an account, you can use it to get a password.

7. Adding a subaccount

Your colleagues may already be asking you to do this.

When you are logged in, you have the “Account” menu option as shown in the previous section. For a subaccount, that one is largely irrelevant, but for a master account it’s very important.

7.1 Opening the Subscriptions view

There are two ways of getting to the Subscriptions tab. You may see the following two buttons at the bottom of the Profile view:

You can click on “View Subscriptions” if your objective is to add subaccounts. The “Change Password” button may be useful in certain situations, but you can get the same effect by saying at login time that you “forgot” your password. The difference is that this button allows you to change the password while you are logged in.

The other way to get to the Subscriptions view is that you click on Subscriptions in the menu on the lefthand side:

Either way, you will then see something like the following:

You can ignore the number ($10,000) and also the expiration date. That is just what Memberpress displays. You will get the numbers that actually apply to your account from us by email.

But the icon at the right margin that consists of three dots is indeed relevant as you’ll see in the next section.

7.2 Opening the list of subaccounts

You can access the list of subaccounts by clicking on the icon with the three vertically arranged dots that you see at the right margin of the Subscriptions view (previous section):

Select “Sub Accounts” and you get a Subaccounts view that looks like this:

At the right margin you’ll find a Remove button that allows you to drop a subaccount from your master account.

7.3 Subaccount creation form

In the Subaccounts view (previous section), click on the blue button labeled with “Add Sub Account”, and you get this form:

Practically speaking, you will hardly ever add someone who already has a user name, so you’ll (almost) always set a new user name.

Other than that, you just enter an email address, first name and last name, and before submitting, it would be good it if you selected “Send NEW members the welcome email”:

The welcome email is a good idea. Otherwise those new users can also get access, but they’ll have to go through the Login process and say they forgot their password (even if they never had one in the first place).

The other checkbox (newsletter) is irrelevant at this point. Should that change, we’ll let you know. It is not the same as the sign-up to emails that inform of (or share) new articles.

8. Any further questions?

Normally, if you are logged in you will have access to all the content. Should there by any unexpected problems, your company can reach out to us and we’ll try to help as fast as we can.