23 February 2016
Today I am busy making Plans. There are plans for: namby-pamby webinars on unconscious bias (which of course doesn’t exist in the IP professions); a joint seminar with the Licensing Executives Society (who are not real lawyers because they have not passed P6); our oral proceedings course (which takes place twice a year but feels like six times a year); another round-table meeting on promoting the UK IP professions (a task which could be difficult if The People don’t vote the right way on 23 June); and a visit by American attorneys (to whom we have to present a very united, European front and some pastries to show we are still trading with France). All of these plans involve exchanging lots of emails with lots of people about venues, prices, content, speakers, registration procedures and whether or not to miniaturise the refreshments. Then there are also the emails about agendas, for meetings with ITMA, the IPO, IPReg and – scariest of all – Council. People will keep writing to ask what I want put on agendas. Well I don’t know, do I? Can’t we use the same one as last time, now we know it works? Agendas are pointless at CIPA anyway. Nobody sticks to them. You might just as well use the following, which is pretty much what we do at committee meetings these days:
Finally today, because it is part of the President’s job to make everyone at CIPA feel loved, I devote a fair bit of time to emailing people saying what great stuff they’re doing and thanking them for doing it. They know I have absolutely no idea what it is they’ve done, or why, but they also know I could not have done it myself. If nothing else, I will be remembered as a very grateful President.
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