User:Voyce

Who I Am

My name is François Morel. I own 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 major top-level international summits with 100+ speakers about such topics as:

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 tax/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, vertical regulations, and all related trade aspects.

Market intelligence analyst

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, extensive monographies and informal consulting). 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. Exhaustive 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 technology acquisitions for a leading BI software vendor, who finally acquired all three targets which I had 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 and implement web conferencing tools in large companies and government administrations, for a leading provider in this field.

12. A study and ranking of the largest patent and trademark applicants through the French, German, UK, EPO and OHIM systems (with the first-ever ranking for this one, through an exclusive methodology), which received coverage in the French press (Le Monde, Le Figaro, La Tribune, L'Usine Nouvelle...).

13. Supervision of a survey by the Paris' Chamber of Commerce and Industry about innovation and IP in French SMBs.

14. A survey towards 60,000 qualified IP professionals worldwide about their wishes as regards the headquarters of the future European Patent Court, which received more than 3,000 responses.

Journalist

Before 1998 and from 1999 to 2002 I've authored more than 1,000 articles about professional IT, software and hardware, high-tech, Internet, networking and telecoms, which were published in the official press. Among hundreds of interviews, here's a short list of some of the most significant ones:

1. Sergey Brin, co-founder and CTO of Google Inc.

2. Marc Andreessen, co-author of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.

3. Russ Cooper, editor of the NT Bugtraq mailing list.

4. Bill Hancock, former consultant to the FBI on computer security, who helped arresting more than 600 pirates.

5. Anthony Zboralski, former hacker - hi Frantic! ;) - and founder of several security consulting firms.

6. Tim Howes, co-inventor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

7. Jeff Miller, President and CEO of Documentum.

etc.

Marketing and advertising

Self-explanatory, with reference to conference organization. Also I'm an expert in targeting, adapting messages, finding new concepts and achieving communications strategies. Back in the 90's I was proposed a job position of Director of Multimedia in a decent Paris-based advertising agency with high-profile customers in the fields of luxury goods and automotive, but I had to decline because at the same time, I was already Head of Marketing & Business Development in an Internet start-up.

Who I Was On The Scene

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

Contact Information

Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you want to get in touch: myname_is_bond@yahoo.fr

Please don't bother me with:

- Illegal stuff. At best I will ignore you, at worst I will make sure that you will receive a warning from competent people.

- Arguments about which group was good or bad, which member was lame, who was stealing code/graphics/etc. I don't give a fuck.

- Too many pointless questions. I don't have the time to respond.

- Too much praise before asking me to devote time to do something for you. Please re-read 'The crow and the fox' (Jean de Lafontaine).

- Your opinion about how I am bad or nasty. I'm neither bad nor nasty, but if you loudly insist, I will make an exception for you.

- Your opinion about how Open Source is good and Intellectual Property is terrorism. The world needs both and if you're too stupid to understand this you shouldn't be allowed to use an e-mail client at all.

- Mythomania or delirium tremens. I'm not your doctor.

Good reasons to contact me:

- You already know me. I'm always glad to remember and to share good time with friends and former contacts.

- You're a fan. I'm ok to sign autographs. Just joking ;)

- You're a female fan, or just a good-looking female and not a fan. I know this is a really bad joke...

- Interesting (well remunerated) job proposal. I have no special idea in mind, but if you feel I can be good for something, please don't refrain.

- Contributing with a new (legal) project for Delight. All ideas are welcome, especially if you have the will and enough time to dedicate yourself.

- You have some of my lost Protracker modules, or you have rare lost Delight demos or intros like The Museum BBStro, the official release of FRX Dentro with the appropriate scrolltext, the Delight PC demo by Bofman, the second Paranormal intro, the intro made by Performer for Dino cracks/oneparts, any releases by our Norwegian coders, Delight releases of the boosted/enhanced Diskmaster and of the translated X-Copy, or even any of my own Universal Packs. I'm very eager to complete my collection and to recover my lost musics (after too many harddisk crashes), and I will be very grateful in return if you can help me with this.

- You have intelligent questions. Yes it may happen sometimes.

- Just say hello, send greetings or moral support. This is much appreciated.