28 February 2017
I am working on some webinar scripts for the patent administrators’ course. It is taking me a while because my brain has gone rusty, but I am sticking at it. I am not a quitter, no sir. Ms Sear is in charge, and Ms Sear wants no truck with quitters. When I have finished the scripts, which will likely be in about 2019, I will have to go to CIPA and record them. There are webinars already, and they are good, but Ms Sear prefers to have a proper written script so that she can tell me off when I say the wrong thing or add in lots of waffle and sock fluff. Ms Sear wants no truck with sock fluff either, because it messes up her Learning Outcomes. So what I am doing is I am listening to last year’s webinars, and working from a transcript that somebody unrelated to the IP world typed up in a state of catatonic boredom, and turning it into a spanking new script that even I cannot get wrong when I get into the recording studio. In the two weeks I have been working on this project, I have acquired an awful lot of new knowledge. This is because my old knowledge did not quite extend to the complexities of the patent administrator’s role, being confined instead to the stuff that patent attorneys can cope with. So my research has taken me to EPO and WIPO websites, looking at forms I have not seen in a long time and not known how to fill out for even longer, because there has always been a friendly administrator prepared to do it for me. I am shocked to see that the forms have changed since I last signed one, which is inconsiderate. This must have happened while we were too busy worrying about Brexit and the United States of Trump to be looking where we were going. Anyway, I am so going to log my webinar writing as CPD time. Because after three years away from the patent coal face, I had almost forgotten about further processing, and now I have remembered, and so my life is complete again. My professional credibility, if not intact, is now marginally less crumbly than it was during my presidency.
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