2 November 2016, 2 pm
My action-packed First Day Back continues with the November Council meeting. These meetings are better done by phone than in person, because it is a messy business assembling 26 patent attorneys round a table. In fact, it is a messy business assembling patent attorneys full stop. The new Pee has changed the rules for Council meetings. The rule now is that Council members turn up. So we have a packed CIPA Hall. This wasn’t the case when I was Pee: people didn’t need to turn up because they could read about what had happened in the Not-so-Secret Diary afterwards. And nothing much happened anyway because I was an Ineffectual Pee on account of spending most of my time fending off complaints. I can only put in an hour and a half at Council before I dash off to my next Important Engagement busy busy. An hour and a half is however plenty long enough. The Pee and the Chief Eggsek manage to spin out the agenda so that nothing important has to be dealt with until after I’m gone. This saves them having to do the important stuff in charades, like they do when I’m taking part in Council meetings by phone, or through post-meeting retrospective analyses, like they do in the minutes.
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