11 September 2015
It occurs to me that with all this fuss about chasing members to respond to the Bye-laws review, and my fabulous video which has prompted at least eight more responses, perhaps I ought to get my finger out and file some comments of my own. I am, after all, a CIPA Fellow good and true. Rats. This means I shall have to read the draft Bye-laws properly instead of just swanning around urging other people to read them. I start early but by the time I have finished wittering my response it is nearly time for a gin and tonic. In fact, it is so nearly time for a gin and tonic that there is little point waiting the extra hour or so. After the gin and tonic, I am suitably impressed with the wittering. It is about as fabulous as the video. And that is saying something. 12 September 2015 Saturday. Rain. There is nothing for it but to progress my Congress speech. Since I have now done the opening section, about fire exits and mobile phones, I decide to start work on the closing section, and then fill in the middle nearer the time. I open v1 and resave it as v2. I give it a new footer, with a new date in, and save again. I add a subheading “Closing remarks”. It is still only half past nine. I get myself a Red Bull®. I drink the Red Bull. My pulse goes up but not, sadly, my productivity. I check my emails; there are none. I re-save the speech, just in case. I listen to the rain. At five to ten, inspiration comes at last. “I hope you enjoyed Congress,” I write. Save. Pause. “Thank you for listening.” Save. And since I have now spent an hour on this speech, I think it is time to have a break from the CIPA work. 14 September 2015, 10.30 am The Protected Titles Committee holds a telephone meeting. There are only four of us, and I am only there because I am the Pee. It is hard to find people to get excited about Protected Titles. We talk about dissolving what’s left of the committee. We are thinking that if anyone is ever naughty enough to call themselves a patent attorney when they’re not a patent attorney, we can just set Mr Davies onto them. And it does not take a whole committee to set Mr Davies onto someone. My next telephone meeting is with Rosa Wilkinson from the IPO. She and I are in charge of the first session of the 2015 CIPA Congress, and we have some evil plans to make. Actually, we should have been making the evil plans several months ago, but we got distracted by caramel custard tarts. We will make up for it now.
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