4 March 2016
The highlight of today is not having to get up at 4.45 am and travel to London. There are no other highlights, since I spend the rest of my time doing back-to-back emails and drafts and organisational whatnot. I am OK at emails and organisational whatnots, but I am not so good at the drafts. I do them all in too much detail, of course, thus requiring me to work through till 9 pm. One of the drafts is about the Official CIPA Position on Brexit. When I have finished it, the EyeEyePeePee tells me off for being too neutral. He says my draft is pretty much meaningless. But the EyeEyePeePee was not at the Council meeting so he does not know that we intended the Official CIPA Position to be meaningless, because otherwise it would be too political, and then it might offend someone, or it might not fit with someone else’s views, or it might need more caveats. I say, Official Positions are supposed to be anodyne. Look at the government message on Brexit; you could almost believe there wasn’t going to be a referendum at all. The EyeEyePeePee is not impressed. No sir. He says we should be more positive in our Official Position. Positive, positive, positive, he says. I think perhaps he is forgetting he is a patent attorney. Patent attorneys are not supposed to be positive, positive positive, and I tell him I might have to expel him from CIPA if he persists in trying to see the sunny side of things like this. Possibly it has affected his brain, invigilating on a frozen football pitch for a week.
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