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 organization

Since 2006 I've been organizing legal conferences and large 100+ speakers 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 R&D taxes/transfer pricing strategies. 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 zone, 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, reputed economic press titles, software vendors, banking/financial institutions and international law firms to acquire value-added and occasionally sensitive information (through compact leads, study reports, series of articles, ad-hoc prospect databases and extensive monographies). My past works have included:

1. The creation of a synthetic decisional tool (print and intranet) for the 400 first decision-makers, based on automation of technological watch, and the identification of sources for new partnerships in the fields of Internet through powerlines, and nuclear technology equipment, for a large CAC-40 company.

2. A study of the impact of the 35-hours work week legislation, projected implementation and negotiations in IT service companies in France, which received coverage in the French mainstream TV (TF1, LCI...).

3. Benchmarks of business intelligence and data mining software, knowledge management systems, Internet and global security platforms, hosting service providers, corporate intranets, CRM, SRM and ERP software, and b-to-b marketplaces, as well as related best practices within large corporations, startups/SMBs, and government administrations.

4. Strategic consulting on potential acquisitions for a leading BI software vendor, who finally acquired all three targets that had been recommended.

5. More than 70 leads on confidential IT projects and related decision-making powermaps handed to corporate search-engine software vendors, some having led to the signing of important contracts.

6. Extended monography about a large middleware and application server software vendor for a much bigger competitor, which helped the latter conclude a multi-billion dollars acquisition.

7. Ad-hoc databases with detailed information on prospects in the field of corporate finance (corporate CFOs and heads of strategy/M&As, investment bankers, private equity partners) sold to leading international economic press titles.

8. Identification of TMT investment targets for the private equity arm of a large French banking institution.

9. A multi-client study on the profitability (TCO/ROI analysis) and the risks of implementing Open Source operating systems (Linux) and office suites (OpenOffice/StarOffice) on large scales in corporate environments.

10. A survey of litigation forum-shopping strategies and practices in large companies based in trilateral countries (Europe, USA, Japan).

11. A survey of practices and intentions to acquire web conferencing tools in large companies and government administrations, for a leading provider in this field.

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Social engineering, reverse engineering,

Who I Was On The Scene

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