10 November 2015
I learn that at last week’s Council meeting (which I missed due to being unavailable for getting shouted at), Council voted not to change the Bye-laws so as to allow in the possibility – only the possibility, mind – of at some point in the future perhaps wanting to separate the requirements for being a CIPA Fellow from the requirements for being a registered patent attorney, the latter being something that the regulator controls and we don’t. I am gobsmacked. Normally Council’s reaction to anything regulation-related is automatic outrage. Now we have voted to align ourselves with the regulator for the foreseeable future. Apparently people thought that if we wanted to de-link fellowship and regulation at a later date, it would be easy enough just to pop back to the Privy Council (who let’s face it are used to people popping in) and ask to amend the Bye-laws again. Because amending the Bye-laws is easy-peasy and absolutely doesn’t involve months’ worth of committee meetings and membership consultations and Council debates and legal advice and exchanges with the said Privy Council. If I were the Leader of CIPA, I think, I would shout at Council to get a grip. I would tell it to stop sleep-walking its way into a future that looks exactly the same as the past. Because, I would say, it has been elected by CIPA members to look after them, and to look after the profession they represent, and to look after their future. If I were the Leader of CIPA, I would have to stamp my feet and refuse to endorse this move, or rather this failure to move, for being contrary to everything I stood for. But I am not the Leader of CIPA. I am only the Pee. The Pee is not a Leader. CIPA doesn’t like Leaders because Leaders are not democratic and they go around not getting permission for things. They go around talking about the future like it’s actually going to be different. My thought for the day: There is a fine line between visionary and delusional. Being visionary gets things done. Being delusional gets you locked up, or at the very least laughed at in Council meetings. You can see where I’m going with this. After a double gin and tonic, even I can see where I’m going with this.
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