3 January 2017
I have given up Red Bull®, chocolate and alcohol for the month. I no longer have anything to look forward to between meals except checking my CIPA emails. This may sound like a First World Problem but it is the most serious I’ve come across for a while. It is the Red Bull I miss the most. How do you get through a whole day without caffeine? 4 January 2017 And today brings the ultimate test. I need to get through a whole day and a CIPA Council meeting, without caffeine to help me along and without the promise of a gin and tonic afterwards. Fortunately, the President announces that the Council meeting is going to be Short. He has some quaint idea that this is linked to the agenda being short. Personally I never found much correlation between agenda length and meeting length; CIPA Council meetings last till gone 5 pm regardless, and if there are insufficient agenda items, people will make some up. That’s what “Any Other Business” is for. But the President is going to be Fierce, he says. I know about being Fierce. I am an expert at it. I have been practising ready for my Fierce EPO panel discussion. But actually, the President is not fierce in the meeting at all. Not by CIPA standards. I have seen patent attorneys being fiercer than this in the queue for the EPO photocopier. The meeting goes on till nearly 5 pm. By this time my face is in my keyboard and my husband is busy cooking tea. Tonight we are going to eat Leftovers. Yum.
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