18 November 2015, 11 am
We are planning next year’s webinar schedule. And to do this, we are trialling a brand new, state-of-the-art project management technique. It involves seven blank sheets of paper labelled January to July, spread out in the middle of the table. On the sheets of paper, using a special tool called a Pen, we write the names of the webinars we are going to run in the relevant months, for instance “Something about trade marks” and “Commercial stuff”. It seems to work, this new technique. Before long, we have webinars planned for at least the first 26 weeks of 2016. Mr Davies is pleased about this, because without webinars not only do patent attorneys become ignorant but also CIPA becomes poor. We move on to discussing a brand new, state-of-the-art scheme for CIPA members to sign up for the webinars. It involves paying a fixed amount at the start of the year and then not having to worry about paying for any more webinars until the next year. We expect this to be popular because you will not have to keep grovelling to your line manager or your finance department every time you want to do a webinar, you will just sign up for FREE. And at the end of the year, CIPA could provide you with a personalised CPD log showing all the free webinars you’d attended, which would be good if IPReg were to ask you how you’d spent your spare time recently. This is of course a great idea. And all we need to make it work is a fully functional database and a web portal for booking onto webinars, and the database must be able to talk to the web portal. Oh ha ha ha. There have been one or two teeny weeny setbacks with the new CIPA website. Like, links not linking. Like, pages not being there. The developers say: We have done our bit; if you want us to come back and do it properly you will have to pay extra. What Mr Davies says next can’t be printed. Possibly it is in Welsh.
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