27 November 2015, 10 am
Gathered at CIPA Hall is a roomful of patent and trade mark attorneys and IP solicitors. Plus two people from the IPO. Plus Mr Davies, who introduces himself as the plumber who came four years ago to fix the toilet and forgot to leave (this is not helpful in the context, I feel, especially since the toilet is still not fixed but everything else has been well and truly disrupted). Plus Mr Lampert, who is going to take notes in Pitman shorthand, because he is a journalist and cannot do proper writing. I have summoned, I mean invited, these people so that we can all talk together about promoting the UK IP system abroad. We are fed up of going to foreign lands and saying, “The UK is quite good at IP, a little bit,” and the foreign land people saying, “But the Germans said they were better.” And then us saying, “Oh, yes, sorry, perhaps you’re right, we’ll get our coats.” We decide that we absolutely must present a united front to establish the UK as a Centre of IP Excellence (I have no idea what this means, but I have been saying it so much that now everyone assumes it is a valid expression). We absolutely must rally together to bring in bounteous supplies of new IP work from emerging markets, before the bounteous supplies land in Frankfurt or Munich. To do this, we absolutely must first develop some Key Messages about Why the UK is a Centre of IP Excellence and indeed about What Exactly Is a Centre of IP Excellence, and then we can all go out and spread these messages, and the IPO and their friends in the Government can take the messages in their diplomatic briefcases wherever they go. All good meetings need to come up with Key Messages. And when we have come up with the Key Messages, Mr Lampert can make us a Key Brochure and a Key Shouty Video to showcase them. Here are our Key Messages:
I am pleased with this collection of Key Messages and am looking forward to seeing Mr Lampert’s video about it. A good morning’s work, superbly chaired by Yours Truly, and I only had to tell people twice that they were veering off topic. We were not supposed to be talking about Lederhosen.
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