5 March 2016, 3 pm
I am reading a document by HM Treasury. I think it has been written in the same way we write documents at CIPA. It is about how the government is going to make life better for everyone, from little people in little houses to little people in little businesses. One of the ways it is going to make life better for the little people is to reduce regulation, so that bigger businesses can get more “competitive” (for which read “greedy”) about the way they help little people and then the government won’t have to do anything to help the little people itself. The document says that regulators are to become more innovative. So they are to have Innovation Plans and they are to have Safe Regulatory Spaces in which to do their innovation. Apparently one type of Safe Regulatory Space you can have is a Regulatory Sandbox. You can also have an Innovation Space, where “new models can be trialled”. I am trying to picture how the IPReg offices will look once they have moved the desks aside to make room for the Sandboxes and the Innovation Spaces and the Regulatory Softplay Areas and the Regulatory Modelling Corners. And I am thinking that the result is unlikely to be a safe space at all; on the contrary, it is likely to be extremely crowded. Mr Heap will be glad he is moving on before things get too silly. It is all very well having cake and custard stuff at a farewell meeting, but if you had to play in the sand with patent and trade mark attorneys on a regular basis, you would surely want to top yourself before long?
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