1 November 2017, 10 am
Je suis back à CIPA. Il est le Congress Steering Committee meeting. Il est already time pour creating le Congress du next year. Even though we have only just recovered from le one du this year. We have a bit of an idea about the 2018 theme. It is to be about How to Build a Patent Attorney. It will provide all the extra training you need to be a good patent attorney in the 21st Century, bearing in mind the challenges that lie ahead including that none of us has a clue what the world is going to look like by 2019 other than that it will be full of robots but not EU ones. So CIPA Congress 2019 will help create proper, natural patent attorney intelligence to counter the artificial intelligence that is otherwise going to be running the world by the time those claims you drafted in 2017 have been granted. We plan to consult with CIPA members about the types of extra training they regard as useful in this context. This will allow us to blame them if the programme is not up to scratch. Amazing Dwaine is charged with the task of writing up the minutes, from which we can put together a suitable questionnaire. Everyone is hoping that Dwaine will take a long time writing the minutes, so that we do not have to think about the questionnaire for a while. But Dwaine has that look in his eye that says he means business, and I suspect the minutes will be in our inboxes before we have reached our respective homes this evening. After the meeting, I hang around having nothing to do because I am no longer an Officer I am a Nobody and I am not important any more. Luckily, this gives me more time to make cups of coffee and drink Red Bull® and go shopping for lunch. Except that I am not allowed lunch because I need to fit into my posh frock when I go to be OBE-d in two weeks’ time, and after Le Week En France this is going to require desperate dieting measures. The frock was not designed for a poids-lourde.
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