8 September 2015
I attend a meeting of the Litigation Committee. Lucky old Litigation Committee. The people there are dead excited about UK patent attorneys getting representation rights in the UPC. There are rules to say that people like me can be what is affectionately termed “grandfathered” in. I do not find this exciting; I find it terrifying. But some people find it exciting. And this is why I am a CIPA President and not a patent attorney litigator. After the meeting I eat out with the Chair of the Litigation Committee and the Chair of the Constitutional Affairs Committee, who are both really friendly people and partial to a nice bit of lunch. We talk about committee terms of reference. Council has decreed that forthwith shall each and every committee prepare for itself some duly fitting statement of the remit and objectives thereof, which shall be called Terms of Reference and shall be proffered for the blessing of Council to be bestowed upon them. They say We are not quite sure what to put in our Terms of Reference. I say Eat up we’ll think of something later. Towards the end of lunch, we are joined by the Chair of the EPO Liaison Ex-Sub-Committee of the Patents Committee and Vice-Chair of the International Liaison Committee’s Working Group for China, or Gwilym Roberts for short. Mr Roberts is also partial to a nice bit of lunch, but he is too late for lunch so I buy him a coffee instead. By now, it is beginning to look as though the CIPA Pee just sits in a restaurant all afternoon graciously granting audiences and flat whites to passing Fellows. I return to CIPA for a meeting with the Chair of the Designs & Copyright Committee. He is the sixth committee chair I have met with in the last two days. But it is important to be in with the committees at CIPA, because it is the committees who know what’s going on. Pretty much everyone else is just guessing.
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