7 January 2016, 11.30 am
Next I meet with the EyePeePee, the Onssek and the Eye-Ell-See Chair. The Eye-Ell-See is the committee in charge of telling foreigners how good CIPA is. Its Chairman is shortly travelling to Japan for a conference about global patent harmonisation. He is going to tell the Japanese that you can harmonise all you like, but you will never make the foreign patent attorneys as good as the British ones. Everyone at the meeting is going to sign a declaration that says We have discussed harmonisation and We have enjoyed discussing harmonisation and We pledge to discuss harmonisation again some time. I have obtained special Council approval for CIPA to sign this declaration. Council approval is hard-won if you are a Pee like me, but I think we wore them down with the discussion about the revised updated Strategic Plan. Of course, patent attorneys the world over are going to be worried about harmonisation. Thus far, we have devoted our lives and our bank accounts to advising how to cope with the lack of it. If it arrives, we will have nothing left to do. The EyePeePee points out that outsourcing and commoditisation and artificial intelligence are equally likely to leave us with nothing to do. Luckily, we will still have the revised updated Strategic Plan to work on.
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