27 April 2016, 10 pm
I return to the student flat, which soon fills up with delusional old patent attorneys. We think briefly about an all-night student party, but decide in the end that a cup of tea would be better. We chat about Old Times. We mean, of course, the Old Times before EPC 2000 (for the other two, before EPC anything), when you could add a numerical range to your claims based on the top left and bottom right cells of the results table in Example 2b. Good times… Then one of them offers to show us a photo, of the troupe of young dancing girls he looks after at weekends. We say: There had better be some good explanations to go with the photo. Fortunately, there are, and both the dancing girls and the looking after of the dancing girls turn out to be perfectly innocent after all. But we cannot resist teasing him about his Vestal Virgins from then on. The other two have returned with a carrier bag of Further and Better Provisions. They are very proud of themselves for having remembered these Further and Better Provisions en route back to the flat. It is a sad reflection of the ageing process that what they are so proud of having purchased is cling film and freezer bags, in order to store more sensibly the leftovers from lunch. It is, in fact, a sad reflection of the ageing process that there even are any leftovers. We cling film the leftovers, and a few other things as well just for fun, because we can. Then we have a discussion about who gets which sofa bed and how to distribute the available bedding, and which of us is going to do the domestic stuff like uniting the duvets with their complementary duvet covers, bearing in mind that since I am the only woman it cannot possibly be me because of the risk of accusations of sexism. It is a discussion that any patent attorney would be proud of, and after much fierce yet dignified argument we reach an extremely precise conclusion. I do the duvets. The reason I do the duvets is that I am the only one of us who has a clue how to set about the process. The other two were disappointed to learn that duvets and their covers do not come pre-assembled.
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