User:Voyce

Who I Am

My name is François Morel. I have a Master 2 in Journalism (Written & Online Press) from ESJ-Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme. I have also studied Law at University Jean Monnet in Sceaux near Paris, France.

Conference organizer

Since 2006 I've been organizing legal conferences and large top-level international summits specialized in:

1. The protection, litigation, valuation, licensing and monetization of IP rights. Corporate patent and trademark strategies. The management, exploitation and assessment of large patent portfolios. IP due diligence and risks. Accounting of intangibles and tax transfer pricing. IP enforcement and anti-counterfeiting: police, customs, judicial, co-operation with corporate departments and intermediaries. With primary focuses on European systems (EU member states, EPO, and the Unitary Patent), the WIPO PCT system, the U.S. system (America Invents Act), Asia-Pacific, and BRICS countries.

2. The policy, the economy and the financing of innovation, through EU and national innovation programmes, public/private technology transfer, private equity funding, and financial leverages (IP marketplace...).

3. Competition law: compliance and ethics, antitrust deterrence, cartel enforcement, merger control, state aids, liberalisation packages on vertical markets, and all related trade aspects.

Market intelligence

From 1998 to 2006, I have helped many large companies, strategy consulting firms, mainstream economic media, software vendors, banking/financial institutions and international law firms with value-added and occasionally sensitive information (through compact leads, study reports, ad-hoc prospect databases and extensive monographies). My past works have included:

Social engineering, reverse engineering,

Journalism

Marketing and advertising

Who I Was On The Scene

From 1985 to 1995 I've been active on the Amstrad CPC, Amiga and PC scenes.