19 March 2016
“Thank you for shopping with Intellectual Property Regulation Board Limited.” This has to be one of the most bizarre payment confirmations that’s ever landed in my inbox. I do not generally think of paying my IPReg practice fee as a shopping experience. Will I shortly be sent a dispatch note, followed by a request for customer feedback? Are there other things I could have added to my IPReg shopping basket: souvenir CPD logs, for instance, or ABS badges saying “Hip HoLP” and “I’m a Happy HoFA”? I wish I felt as good about this purchase as I do when I buy a book or a whisky or a new crumpled outfit. But the fact is, there are some things you just have to do, like paying your road tax or your TV licence fee, and putting them on the credit card doesn’t make them any more of a spree at the mall than they were when you had to take a cheque to the post office. Ah well. The fee is paid. Now I am a proper, regulated Pee and you are all protected from my incompetence and inappropriate conduct. And if I publish now, I really will be damned.
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