The Congress Steering Committee meets. We talk about the Big Cheese speakers we have
lined up. They are already being primed
to make Controversial Assertions so as to stimulate Lively Debate. The primary intended outcome is actually not
so much the debate as a more life-sustaining temperature in the meeting room. In previous years it has been a little on the
northern side. This year, with sessions on
the commoditisation of legal services, the replacement of IP attorneys with Artificial
Intelligence, and whether IP hinders innovation, there is a risk that the room
will get so hot it will spontaneously combust.
We might as well rebrand the event Hot
CIPA.
Perhaps.
Personally, I doubt that Artificial Intelligence could ever
be a match for the more astute members of the patent profession. But if they ever come up with Artificial
Social Skills, then we will have to
start watching our backs. And they won’t
have to try too hard either.
The session on AI has been allocated to Mr Davies and the
EyePeePee Train Man. Since the EyePeePee
has little real interest in anything that isn’t steam-driven, it has been left
to Mr Davies to do the bulk of the getting excited about this. And excited he is, too. He has called the session: Disruptive Technologies. He is very fond of the word “disruptive”, our
Mr Davies. He has had it shouted at him
often enough.
The only person who has not progressed her allocated session
particularly much is of course me. I try
to make this seem deliberate.
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