25 February 2016, 9 am
Mr Roberts has had an idea. I always worry when Mr Roberts has ideas. It means he hasn’t enough work to do and is going to cause trouble at CIPA until he does. This new idea is a series of pieces in the Journal entitled “Six things we love about…”. Mr Roberts has got the ball rolling with a “Six things we love about auxiliary requests”, there being some concern that the EPO might stop allowing them, which would basically be the end of the world. He has some ideas for other things we might find six things to love about. And after the six things we love, we should identify one thing we hate. For example: one thing we hate about auxiliary requests is that you always get the third one muddled up with the seventh. Personally I think he may have got the balance wrong. A typical patent attorney is more likely to be able to find six things to hate and one to love, or perhaps 6.5 things to hate and 0.5 of a thing to love. About anything. Mr Roberts thinks I could do a piece entitled “Six things to love about being the CIPA Pee”. Ha ha. The only thing I can think of to love about being the CIPA Pee is that it only lasts a year. This is perhaps not entering into the spirit of Mr Roberts’s idea. But he is an eternal optimist, and I’m sure if I faff about for long enough he will think of five more things for me. Being able to work with the brilliant, creative Mr Roberts will be one of them. Being able to drink cocktails with the brilliant, creative Mr Roberts may be another.
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