9:30

I write this as I wait in the spacious, neat and suave office of Mr. Pranith Nanavati, Patent & Trademark Attorney. I’ll be interning here during the month of May. This is my third internship in the span of two years at GNLU, after HRLN and K.K. Manan & Associates. I’ve interned less than most others in my batch have.
An internship is supposed to be a work experience where one is required to assist an advocate in all kinds of lawyering work, drafting documents, helping in research work, accompany the advocate to court and watch him plead or simply do nothing! Doing nothing is the best description most internships can be given. Last semester while interning in Delhi, I actually understood that not all interns are lucky to get work while interning. Work is ideally supposed to be snatched.
The idea of being a patent and trademark attorney had crossed my mind once in the first year when I gave up the idea of being a hardcore IPR attorney. I was told that one needs a study background in Science to get there. I still don’t know anything about IPR or patents or trademarks despite the fact that one of my parents is a patent expert and both of them know a great deal about IPR. However, they’re just words to me. I have no idea what to say if Mr. Nanavati asks me as to what these words mean. Pity, I’m interning in a Patent & Trademark firm!

12:05

Mr. Pranith Nanavati seems to be a kind and good humoured man. He assured to me that I’ll be getting dab my hands everywhere during the month. I have been introduced to quite a few people, especially the females. Everyone seems to be warm and helping. The office is neat and good looking but… it has glass walls! The dude in the cabin opposite to mine can see me typing on my laptop and the one adjacent to mine can even see that its a word file! No privacy here!!
Ever since I entered this room, I’ve been reading an injunction application & I can barely understand the descriptions mentioned here. Everything is so repetitive. I’m sure by the time I finish reading this, I’ll have all this automatically memorized. I’m going to have to finish this before evening so that I get to explore the best part of any lawyer’s office: his library!

14:09

Right at the centre of this room is a glass table. I am sitting with my laptop and a fat book on Injunctions. Guess what?! I’m in the library already. This is wow! It is loaded with books on everything. I mean, all laws. I thought books on Interpretation of Statues are only meant for college libraries until my roommate told me how thoroughly she used it in her moot. When I studied it for the exams, I came to know how important and useful a subject it was and how interesting it could be made. As reinforcement to these beliefs, I can see loads of IoS books in the library here as well… an entire shelf of IoS books. I’ll get back to reading on injunctions.

16:22

Twice I dozed off. I want to know as to where I’m going! Another hour to go before I can leave this place and catch some sleep.

18:24

I’m back to the room where I was reading the injunction application in the morning. But my sleep has vanished and I’m so excited. I have been given hell lot of reading material on Patents, Trademark and Copyrights (“for my academic interest”) and a Criminal Miscellaneous Petition scheduled for hearing tomorrow along with a bundle of supporting judgments. I thought I’d go home at 5:30 but after the long interaction with the boss, I don’t want to go! I feel like reading everything.

19:26

Finally done with everything. End of today.