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FreePatentsOnline - Creating an account
Create an account
Activating your account
Logging in for the first time
Did not receive the activation email?
FreePatentsOnline provides many value-added features to its account holders. You can create an account for free, and avail yourself of all the following:
The fields Name, Password, Retype Password, Occupation, Email and Confirm Email are mandatory, and are marked with a *. Checking the box to indicate that you have read the "Terms of Use" is also mandatory. You cannot leave a mandatory field blank or you will get an error upon submitting the form.
Your password
1. Your password should be at least 6 characters long, and can have a maximum of 15 characters.
2. Spaces, hyphens (-) and quotations (') are not allowed in passwords.
3. Passwords are case sensitive.
Your email address
1. Use an existing email address. The email address must be valid, as an activation email will be sent, and you are required to click on a link in the activation email before your account will function.
2. Special characters like / (forward slash), " (double quotes), < (greater than symbol), > (less than symbol), ? (question mark), & (ampersand symbol) and \ (backward slash) cannot be used in the email address. These should not be found in email addresses anyway.
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The link in the activation mail will take you to FreePatentsOnline log in page. You can log in with the Email Address and password provided at the time of sign-up.
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Email Address - Use the email address you had provided on the sign-up form. (Your activation mail shows your Email address under User Name).
Password - Use the password you provided on the registration form.
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If you do not find the FreePatentsOnline activation mail in your inbox, check the SPAM folder too. It is possible that the SPAM filter of your mail account has mistaken our mail for SPAM.
SPAM filters are intended to keep out unsolicited email. Due to the volume of users we have, FreePatentsOnline.com sends a lot of email. This occasionally causes email service providers to interpret our emails as SPAM.
To make sure you receive our email, you can whitelist emails from FreePatentsOnline.com. By whitelisting, you can set your email software to accept incoming email from a specific email address or domain, overriding your mail service provider's SPAM filter.
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Activating your account
Logging in for the first time
Did not receive the activation email?
FreePatentsOnline provides many value-added features to its account holders. You can create an account for free, and avail yourself of all the following:
- Save your search queries for future use
- Set alerts to notify you of new documents published in your area of interest
- Save documents into multiple portfolios for reference and organization
- Annotate your portfolios and saved documents
- Share portfolios with your colleagues (and decide who has "read" versus "write" access)
Create an Account.
Select the Create Free Account link in the top right corner of the home page. In the Account Sign up page, fill in the account sign up form.The fields Name, Password, Retype Password, Occupation, Email and Confirm Email are mandatory, and are marked with a *. Checking the box to indicate that you have read the "Terms of Use" is also mandatory. You cannot leave a mandatory field blank or you will get an error upon submitting the form.
Your password
1. Your password should be at least 6 characters long, and can have a maximum of 15 characters.
2. Spaces, hyphens (-) and quotations (') are not allowed in passwords.
3. Passwords are case sensitive.
Your email address
1. Use an existing email address. The email address must be valid, as an activation email will be sent, and you are required to click on a link in the activation email before your account will function.
2. Special characters like / (forward slash), " (double quotes), < (greater than symbol), > (less than symbol), ? (question mark), & (ampersand symbol) and \ (backward slash) cannot be used in the email address. These should not be found in email addresses anyway.
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]Activating your account
FreePatentsOnline has an email activation procedure. When you submit the sign-up form, you are then sent a verification email that contains an activation link. Once you click on this activation link, your account is activated.The link in the activation mail will take you to FreePatentsOnline log in page. You can log in with the Email Address and password provided at the time of sign-up.
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]Logging in for the first time
The log in page will ask for your Email Address and Password.Email Address - Use the email address you had provided on the sign-up form. (Your activation mail shows your Email address under User Name).
Password - Use the password you provided on the registration form.
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]Did not receive the activation mail?
Our system sends emails immediately. However, email takes a varying amount of time to be delivered on the internet, due to traffic conditions, your ISP, software settings, etc. We suggest giving the email at least 20 minutes to be received, but most of the time it should be much faster.If you do not find the FreePatentsOnline activation mail in your inbox, check the SPAM folder too. It is possible that the SPAM filter of your mail account has mistaken our mail for SPAM.
SPAM filters are intended to keep out unsolicited email. Due to the volume of users we have, FreePatentsOnline.com sends a lot of email. This occasionally causes email service providers to interpret our emails as SPAM.
To make sure you receive our email, you can whitelist emails from FreePatentsOnline.com. By whitelisting, you can set your email software to accept incoming email from a specific email address or domain, overriding your mail service provider's SPAM filter.
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