24 June 2015, 11.45 am
I am visiting some in-house CIPA members near Manchester. They cannot really understand why I have bothered. They say: CIPA spends most of its time helping private practice attorneys with their clients and their invoicing and their complaints handling policies, so why should in-house attorneys have to pay as much for membership as the private practice ones do? I think this is perhaps a fair point. So I tell them about all the other stuff CIPA does, for both types of patent attorney, especially the educational stuff which is FAB. They nod politely, but I think they would rather I’d offered them a refund. They have bought in biscuits especially for my visit. I don’t like to take one now I know they think CIPA is fleecing them. 24 June 2015, 3.15 pm I meet some more CIPA members, who are in private practice doing invoicing and complaints handling in the centre of Manchester. They also offer me biscuits. This time I take one, because after all they are getting an amazing deal on their membership fees compared to the people in industry. They seem surprised to hear that they are still CIPA members, and indeed that CIPA still exists. When I tell them it is the Manchester regional meeting tomorrow, they are even more surprised. This is not a good start to a discussion about the value of membership, but things liven up when they show me the new-look CIPA Journal that arrived this week. I think it looks ACE. They say, Feel free to take it out of the packaging; we might not get round to it.
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