I am trying not to be miffed at the fact that there is going
to be a “Women in IP” forum and I have not been invited. I am not doing very well at not being miffed.
I am prohibited from speaking at the Women in IP forum
because I am a nasty private practice person, and all that private practice
people care about is making money, unlike corporations. So if I were to take to the stage, I would
probably embarrass everyone by plugging my firm shamelessly when I was supposed
to be talking about patent strategies or something.
I would of course be allowed to plug my firm shamelessly if
I paid for the privilege I mean sponsored the event. This is not going to happen because
medium-sized firms like mine cannot afford to sponsor London conferences; we
prefer to sponsor people doing a three-legged pub crawl or a Pimp my Pasty
competition.
Oh well. It is their
loss, not mine. I may not know much
about IP, and to be honest I may not be an especially effective woman either,
but I do a thumping good monologue about straw.
And I have an important take-home message for Women in IP: do what you
like; do the unexpected; drop straw everywhere – the men will not know how to
react and while they are busy not knowing how to react, take over. Mwa ha ha!
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