3 February 2016, 2.30 pm
At today’s Council meeting we have laid on some sport. We have invited the Hon Sec of the Informals, aka Little CIPA, to talk to us about a proposal that the Informals and the IPO cooked up together. There is an expectant silence as he prepares to speak, which only the bravest of souls could interpret as welcoming. He looks remarkably composed, considering. The proposal is about trainee examiners from the IPO visiting firms of patent attorneys to find out what they do for a living and why it is they all sound so grumpy when they write letters. Fortunately, everyone supports this proposal. After all, it does not come from the President. Unfortunately, supporting the proposal only takes thirty seconds; after that there are thirty minutes of details to sort. What time will the trainee examiners arrive? Will there be presentations and if so, who will write them? And what will they have for lunch? The Hon Sec of Little CIPA tries to look happy that people are taking such an in-depth interest in his proposal, but by 3 pm he just looks, frankly, exhausted. I tell him he is free to go. I have rarely seen anyone put a coat on so quickly. We watch him exit, in silence, because we cannot start talking again until he’s left, in case he finds out anything SECRET about how Big CIPA is run.
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