19 January 2016
I attend a meeting of the Trade Marks Committee, through the medium of a “dial-in”. This means that I am there in spirit if not in body. And I do not mean the gin type of spirit. Sadly. Some of the time I am there in mind as well as in spirit. However, these days my brain has adopted the unnerving habit of going into screensaver mode unless constantly provoked, during which it fills with pictures of bubbly, floaty things, like the inside of a gin and tonic for example, and then everything shuts down without saving. The Chair of the Trade Marks Committee knows this, because he saw it happen in the WIPO meetings last week. In order to save me the embarrassment of snoring down the phone line today, he nudges me into life every now and then by asking my Presidential opinion on something. The coming into life process takes a few seconds, and the un-muting of the phone takes a few seconds more, as does the mental trawling to identify which agenda item is supposedly being discussed, so the Presidential opinion can at times seem a little tardy. Personally, I prefer to think of the delay as a “statesmanlike” pause. But I don’t think I’m fooling anyone.
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