4 August 2015, 1 pm
I have lunch with the Professional Development Working Group. The Working Group has defined its objectives (which are, appropriately, to provide some professional development opportunities) and is now raring to go and planning lots of webinars. I am there to provide continuity. So when they look at the list of Webinars We Did Before they can ask me Why did we do these webinars? Unfortunately I cannot remember why we did most of the webinars and I have a sneaking suspicion it was more to do with who volunteered to speak than any clear sense of purpose. So I waffle on about learning outcomes and development matrices, and then I choose the largest sandwich on the lunch plate so as to be unavailable for providing continuity for the rest of the meeting. 4 August 2015, 4 pm Now I am at the IPO again, with the EyePeePee, the Chief Eggsek and our Chief Shouty Person Mr Lampert. This time we are meeting some people who want to help us promote the UK IP system – and the UK’s IP professionals – in other countries. It becomes apparent that we will need two things before we can really start conquering the world:
The IPO people ask us if there are any more countries or regions we would like to conquer, apart from the ones where the German attorneys have already laid down their metaphorical towels on the sunbeds of the patent world. The others give me a look that says I should probably be unavailable for providing an answer to this question. 4 August 2015, 6 pm I meet with the ITMA President to talk about gin and then mezze and a bit about CIPA and ITMA, although not too much because it would put us off our falafel, and then a bit about the long-term future of the IP professions. I think this counts as a Productive Meeting. Anyways, it is more sophisticated than comedy cocktails and socks.
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