Intellectual property presentation made attendees think.
 
Jacques Island, President, Inquesta Corp. jisla@earthlink.net 


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Summary: Intellectual property lawyers and competitive intelligence professionals mingled at this Miami Chapter meeting on protecting intellectual property. Jacques Island provides an overview of the intellectual property issues discussed there.

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If you weren't at the May 8 quarterly meeting of the Miami chapter of SCIP you missed a good discussion and much festivity. The event gave everyone time to network among a turnout of professionals in business and law. The rubber met the road here between intelligence producers, intelligence users, and IP lawyers, those folks who would keep us out of legal harms way, or repair the harm if our intellectual property is stolen. Sponsoring attorneys from Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman & Bongini P.L. were the right complement for Bill DeGenaro “a fascinating and engaging speaker" who opened many business eyes to foreign and domestic threats to U.S. corporate trade secrets.
 
Everyone learned something, either about the cultural differences of societies other than North American, the methods that unbriddled intelligence collectors employ to snatch protected information, signals that foretell or flag intrusions into corporate minds and databases, or ways to implement a more secure company IP program. Many attendees went to the meeting because they were unfamiliar with intellectual property issues and wanted to learn more about it—and they did! Bill delivered. Many of the attendees suggested that the chapter revisit the topic. Given the interest and enthusiasm, this is a distinct possibility. It is an issue that caused serious thought and should be revisited soon.