Mr Davies has been thinking about who we should let into CIPA. Luckily, he has not quite decided that window
cleaners would make good Council members, but I’ll bet he’s considered it once
or twice in his darker moments.
No, Mr Davies has decided that the problem might be with our name. So long as we are called a Chartered Institute
of Patent Attorneys, he says, we will feel we are an exclusive club for patent
attorneys. Which, put like that, does
not sound unreasonable. So then he
starts on about Ronseal® tins which do not have patent attorneys in but what
they do have is a nice clear label that tells you what to expect when you open
them. I don’t know, SPAM or
something. Or possibly blokey things to
do with rivets or power tools or shed decor.
Anyway, says Mr Davies, we must be like Ronseal and put the
right label on our tin. We could call
ourselves the Chartered Institute of People Who Are A Bit Interested in
IP. Or even better, he says, we could be
the Chartered Institute of Stuff to do with IP.
And that way even people who couldn’t spell res judicata would be able to join the Institute and vote and stand
for Council but don’t worry, the public would still know that the Institute
wasn’t full of SPAM.
Mr Davies writes a seditious article setting out some
heretical questions and is going to publish it Very Soon. He has fallen nicely into my trap. No-one will ever take him seriously
again. Mwa ha ha!
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