It appears we have another volunteer to be a Regional
Representative. This one is for
Merseyside and the North-West. We also
have one for the Land of Cat-flaps I mean Flat Caps (ie T’Oop North But Not the
Bit on t’Wrong Side o’ t’Pennines) and one for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
(ie The Seaside). We have a potential
volunteer for the Wess Curntry too, but he is still thinking about whether it is
wise to take responsibility for what happens in Zummerzet bearing in mind the
amount of straw there is. I hope he
agrees anyway.
It is going to be great being a regional rep. You will be able to run happy hours, and
happy hours disguised as CPD seminars, and happy hours disguised as Collaborative
Training Experiences, all on your own doorstep and subsidised by CIPA. You will be sent hot-off-the-press Institute
news to disseminate among the patent attorneys in your region, and when they
complain you will be able to channel the complaints directly to CIPA without needing
to spend hours on LinkedIn®. You will
have your own email address, and a bit of space on the whizzy new website when
it is built. You may even get a list of
CIPA members in your region, once the replacement database is up and running, which is
quite a luxury because at the moment if anyone wants such complex information
the Membership Team have to spend hours on Google Maps.
And if you are ambitious, you will be able to build up
enough of a following to push for devolution, which is quite fashionable these
days, and then you will be able to have your own Council and your own Presidential
swimming-gala medal.
But perhaps I am getting ahead of myself. Let’s just start with the happy hours.
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