Recently my blog has been likened to Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. This is a trifle worrying. I think maybe it is time to set the record
straight, particularly since I have just been writing about the annual Council
pantomime.
To clarify:
- My blog is emphatically
not a proposal. I will not be
putting it before Council nor any of the CIPA Committees.
- It is therefore unlikely
to be adopted as official CIPA policy.
Except perhaps the bits about the Biscuit Pixies. Which are not, on their own, going to
undermine the fabric of the Institute.
- I have never advocated
that patent attorneys should sell their children to be eaten by rich
barristers. I think that would be
absolutely and completely unacceptable, especially since many barristers
are vegetarians these days. (For
the record, however, I do believe that it is socially irresponsible of
patent attorneys to have children in the first place. Psychiatrists are busy enough as it
is. Possibly these children, if
they must exist, should be put to work checking for typos in government
documents, although the hours would be long and the rewards few, I fear.)
- Occasionally I exaggerate
or satirise things in my blog. Or
make them up completely. This is
another reason (like you needed another) for not taking it seriously.
- Also it has no basis and
is unsupported by any known authority or indeed by any genuine evidence or
research.
- I am unfortunately unable
to flag up which bits of the blog are made up and which are not, for artistic
reasons.
- Not that many people read
it anyway.
- I am not modest. Or genteel or in any other way
respectable.
Subject to your acceptance of the above caveats, do please
read on. In fact, I strongly recommend
that you do, because as of 1 January 2015, only registered followers of my blog
will be eligible to attend CIPA meetings and vote in the Institute
elections. I proposed this to myself
yesterday and carried it nem con.
And now I will go back to writing the pantomime script. It is a new story: VeePee and the Biscuit
Pixies. And not a word of it is true.