1 December 2015
It’s official: advent has arrived at CIPA. The Christmas tree is up. It is a small Christmas tree, tastefully decorated on the theme of Austerity. To supplement it, someone has made garlands out of ruled faint A4 refill pads. I presume they have permission for these extravagances. In suitably festive spirit, I throw myself into a day’s worth of meetings, beginning at 9.30 am with some Very Important teleconferences that the Officers do not have permission for, and ending with a drink or two with the President of ITMA, that I did not dare seek permission for. I pay for my own gin and tonic, also a glass of wine for my companion. We decide that this Presidential Summit is an excellent opportunity to merge the two institutes while no one is looking. While we’re at it, we also make IPReg totally independent, finalise the new Trade Mark Attorneys’ Charter and sign up both professions to a compulsory risk assessment scheme. The next time we meet, it will be at the ITMA Christmas Lunch – which of course will have to be rebranded as the CIPTMA Independent Christmas Lunch and will not involve crackers, party poppers, tinsel (which could be used to strangle people), gift wrap (which you could die from, if you ate too much of it) or Christmas pudding (ditto). Be very afraid. If we can merge the institutes over a couple of evening drinks, just think what we could do over the brandy butter.
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