Today is not a Council meeting. The purpose of this not-a-Council meeting is
to gather our thoughts for a CIPA manifesto.
It is so exciting to think that soon we will have a manifesto of our
own, like the Law Society’s only more precise and better punctuated. Mr Lampert is ready with his desktop
publishing kit and I am ready to tell him off for putting macho pictures on the
front of the document.
Unlucky Gary has ordered us a new flip chart specially. There are now more flip charts in CIPA Hall
than there are in the whole of Somerset.
In groups of four, we deface them systematically with our ideas about
what’s on the horizon for the UK IP profession and what we need to lobby
important people about once we’ve reminded them that IP exists. One of the flip charts has already been
defaced for us, although with something more graphic than you would really want
to lobby an MP about.
When the flip charts are full, Mr Davies takes over and we
talk about something completely different.
But the stuff we came up with is important because it tells us what CIPA
and its committees should be looking out for over the next twelve months and
I’ll bet the committees will love us for that.
Gary is going to photograph the flip charts so that we have evidence
that Council did once do something strategic, and we will put the photographs
in the CIPA album. If you have not seen
the CIPA photograph album, do please ask Mr Davies to show it you. It is a bit cobwebby but extremely dignified.
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