Once Mr Davies has got over his excitement (which is easily
achieved by Unlucky Gary making him a second cup of tea), we hold a meeting of
the new Administrators’ Committee. I am
not myself an IP administrator: I do not know nearly enough about IP and have
spent much of my working life asking IP administrators to get me out of
scrapes. But I am chairing the meeting
because I have a reputation for Getting Things Done, even if it is largely by
accident that this happens or is due to the metaphorical tractor marks that I
leave by riding roughshod over everyone.
This time I do some proper chairing. We even propose a motion at one stage. Having proposed it, we second it, carry it
and minute it. You see: I know my stuff
after all.
We agree how to progress the updated patent administrators’
course (this tractor will be driven by Ms Sear), and the IPAG conference, and
potentially an advanced course. We
discuss what else CIPA can do to support IP administrators, instead of
graciously allowing them to pay their associates' fees and then
forgetting all about them.
Ms Sear tells me afterwards that she was scared of all my
proper chairing and motion carrying. I
doubt it, somehow. But if she and I
could ever get over our mutual terror and work together on something, we would
be an indomitable combination, yes sir.
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