9 February 2017, 3 pm
I dial in to a meeting of senior CIPA and CITMA people. They are all in bad moods because of Brexit. Then they are in even worse moods because they cannot agree whether firms of dual-qualified attorneys should call themselves Chartered Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys or Chartered Trade Mark and Patent Attorneys or Trade and Patent Mark Chartered Attorneys or simply Miscellaneous IP Attorneys. By the time we get to discussing IP Inclusive, everyone is keen to go home. They are not hugely impressed with my latest namby-pamby idea for creating a more formal and transparent and accountable structure, because they have spotted that at the end of the idea, there will still be a mad woman in charge. “But I do not have the time to set up a limited company,” I protest, “and nor do you.” “Ah,” they say, “but we know a man who does.” I am always deeply suspicious of people that know men who do. Usually it turns out that the man who does has no intention of doing it. In any case, I suspect that in this context, the man who does is probably a psychiatrist. I am fed up of people being grumpy with me. It is not my fault about Brexit.
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