4 December 2015, 11 am
A group of us meet with two visitors from WIPO and two from the UK IPO. I am wearing my CIPA lapel pin. Obvs. Mr Roberts is there as well. He is on coffee duty. It is a posh pod coffee machine with a selection of different coloured posh pods to put in it. Mr Roberts expresses the view that the pods are all the same anyway, whatever their colours. The rest of us are not convinced. Some of the pods look distinctly like tea bags to me. One of the WIPO visitors takes over. This meeting is a bit like the one last week with the nice men from the EPO, ie it is about WIPO telling us how much they love our feedback and the chance to have lunch with us, and us telling them how much we love them coming over to tell us this. Some of the discussions are about the UK joining something called the Hague System, which is something to do with registered designs, which are some other things I know very little about, of which there are many. Apparently it is easy to get a Hague design and there is a really simple online form which even a Brit could not cock up, and potentially this one really simple form could lead you to worldwide design domination. It sounds great to me that the UK is going to be part of such a fantastic system and I wonder why we didn’t think of it before. Especially if we are planning on leaving one of the other fantastic multinational systems we’re part of.
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