Mr Davies and I meet some more CIPA members in a trendy part
of London. CIPA members seem to be
everywhere these days. One of them is a
solicitor, who was so keen to become part of the CIPA community that he has
started training as a patent attorney.
So we must be doing something right.
We talk a lot about commercial training, and about people in
private practice learning from people in-house and vice versa. I am tempted to refer to this as
cross-fertilisation but I am worried that will come across as rude so let’s
just call it heresy instead.
We also talk about extending CIPA membership to other IP
interest groups, like solicitors and searchers and tech transfer officers and
IP administrators. This too is
heresy. But it might be good heresy
because then people wouldn’t have to go to the lengths of training as a patent
attorney in order to feel part of the Big CIPA Happy Family. It is a pretty desperate move, embarking on
patent attorney training; usually people only do it to avoid ending up as an
accountant.
I am all for opening up CIPA membership. The more members we have, the more time Mr
Davies and I can spend eating biscuits with them.
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