16 March 2016, 3 pm
Back at CIPA HQ, where it’s all happening, Mr Lampert and I are finalising our letter to The Queen. He takes a photograph of me signing it, because this is such a momentous event in my life. The last time I wrote to The Queen, I was eight years old. With my mum’s full encouragement – nay, incitement – I invited Her for tea, and also offered to take Her to the cinema afterwards, because in our house that was what you did if Very Special Friends came round, and I wanted The Queen to know she was Very Special. I received a charming reply from Her Majesty’s Private Secretary, but unfortunately HM was too busy to take me up on my offer. I hope the CIPA invitation yields a better response. At 4 pm I attend a meeting of the IP Awareness Network, and hear a talk by the IPO’s Chief Economist. It is her job to draw pie charts about IP things. They have to be big pie charts, and colourful, so that politicians can understand them. She says she wants to hear our suggestions for IP things she can draw pie charts about. I refrain from suggesting levels of IP awareness among politicians, which I estimate would yield a three-slice pie chart for Never heard of IP (97%); Heard of IP but thinks it’s a synonym for copyright (3%); and Totally gets what IP is about (trace). Still, the IP Awareness Network will shortly be hosting a party at the Houses of Parliament, to mark World IP Day. Probably if there is a party involved, more of the politicians might be persuaded to Totally Get what IP is About. There is nothing like a party to raise awareness.
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