26 April 2016, 10 am
To mark World IP Day, I spend a couple of hours in quiet contemplation of the wonders of IP, and how blessed we are to have the opportunity to work with it. Then I get up, have breakfast, send some tweets, contemplate IP quietly for a bit longer, and before you know it I am half-way through the day. I noticed that Twitter was positively squawking with #WorldIPDay tweets. Or at least, my little corner of it was. Possibly the shock waves have not yet reached the rest of the world. Possibly #WorldIPDay will not make it onto the national news. That said, Mr Davies has gamely initiated a “Hug a patent or trade mark attorney” campaign, complete with logo and badges. I am not sure if the badges are intended to be worn as a mark of achievement for those who have completed the challenge, or as an indication that the wearer is up for a hug, or indeed desperate for a hug, this being possibly the only day of the year they are likely to get one. Either way, a gauntlet has been thrown. I cannot think of anything celebratory to do doon ’yur in the Wess Curntry. Mr Davies and some of the other officers are going to an IP Day party at the House of Commons, where Mr Davies will no doubt be handing out his badges and hugs. But I find parliamentary parties a bore, darlings, and the idea of being hugged by random strangers, who are only doing it because Mr Davies told them to and promised them a badge, does not appeal. So I have decided not to trek all the way to London just to drink sparkling wine with people who think IP and copyright are the same thing. Since everyone else in the IP world is partying, my email traffic is unusually light. So I think I might throw a party of my own. My children aren’t especially interested in IP, nor is my husband, but they can usually be persuaded to join a party. This one will be almost as good as National Pie Week, and certainly better than International Women’s Day, when I made everyone queue to go to the toilet, so they knew how it felt.
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