A brief historic of USD-System Editions’ International Consortium
A graduate in Graphic Arts since 1962, Michel Dubois became a publisher in 1975. He subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a lyricist, composer and writer. Since 1987, he has published approximately fifty booklets and nine complete books on the subject of Intellectual Property, its underlying philosophy and influence on the current economy.
Michel Dubois founded the ASC publishing network in 1981 that he developed, along with his team, into a successful venture distributing his only product, ‘Cartisabelle’. After 7 years in that endeavour, the company had reached the international market through a network of more than 200 licensees and 1,000 sales representatives covering Europe, Africa and Canada.
In May of 1988, Michel Dubois launched a new strategic concept called Francession in Paris, with the help of his friend Dominique Daguet. He began implementing this concept in 1983 in the midst of the development of his ASC publishing network. A concept based on the dissemination of commercial rights, gave birth to a first book published in April of 1988 entitled, “Francession, Passport for the inventor”.
Pursuing the research on his concept, it is in October 1991 that Michel Dubois published his subsequent manual on the subject, "Francession: Invention organically implemented according to the Symbol type method".
By the closing of 1991, Dominique Daguet suggested a new concept to Michel Dubois: allowing an inventor or creator to describe his original creation in a literary autobiographical work, assisted in this mission by professional writers. Dubois and Daguet subsequently coauthored two books about this new concept: "From commercial racket to free enterprise" (1992), and "Intellectual Property extended to Invention" (1993).
In order to further the cause, Dominique Daguet created, between autumns 1991 and 1995, a databank of inventions called “The Library of Inventions”, published by his own publishing company, Librairie Bleue in Troyes, France. Then, in collaboration with Michel Dubois and assisted by Jannick Villepoux, he coauthored series of literary and artistic works for various authors of inventive concepts. Among these works, Pierre Aguesse’s book: "Changing the city" (1994), which later earned the first USD-System’s victory in a court of law (2003 and 2004).
At the end of 1995, shortly after immigrating to Canada, Michel Dubois decided to add to the description of an invention, a new type of business plan called I.C.B.F. (International Consortium Business Forecast), as well as a set of contracts suitable to the strategy introduced in this ICBF. These would constitute elements that are essential to the financial success of a commercial project related to a developed invention or concept.
Shortly after, in 1996, Dubois and Villepoux coauthored the book entitled "U.S.D. System" (Universal Strategy Development System). In this work, the coauthors described, for the first time, the collection of books, which carried a new global concept of the Intellectual Property under the symbolic appellation of “Intellectual Passport CB”. The book also introduced the international consortium of editions called “USD-System”, which was in charge of distributing and promoting series of books, including letters of legal validations, court rulings and reports establishing copyright’s priority over the patent.
1997 was a turning point for Michel Dubois’ business projects. That year, he met François Belleau, an attorney who undertook to translate all of the texts concerning the USD-System concept. Subsequently, the latter also co-signed Michel Dubois’ written books and contracts, after their translation into English. Now living in Canada, Michel Dubois made his first Canadian Intellectual Passport CB and contracted Martin Lépine’s Quebec-based company Paragraph, specializing in digital printing, to print the resulting Intellectual Passport CB.
In March of 1998, Olenka de Weyher, in charge of Public Relations for the FFI (French Federation of Inventors created by Michel Dubois and Dominique Daguet) since September 1992, introduced Mr. Dubois to Pierre Salinger in Washington, D.C. Six months later, the latter accepted to found the Ethics Committee of USD-System’s future consortium of editions. Soon afterwards, the denomination "USD-System” was definitively chosen as a trademark. In the meantime, the Intellectual Passport CB was perfected until it reached its present form.
In April of 1999, with the participation of Pierre Salinger, the Ethics Committee was officially inaugurated in Montreal. Five lectures were held about this subject.
From 1999 to 2003, several court cases were settled out-of-court in favour of the Intellectual Passport CB; ten lectures were subsequently given on that subject.
In December of 1999, Michel Dubois created the first USD-System Holding Inc. American company. This company, which he presided, had one sole purpose, namely, to surrender his commercial rights to this enterprise that subsequently would assume the worldwide promotion of the international consortium of editions USD-System.
In April of 2000, Michel Dubois met Pierre Marcand, businessman and renowned art publisher in the United States, who expressed a high interest in the commercialization of the Intellectual Passport CB. During the same year, Michel Dubois perfected the content of his product and met Andrew Byrne, an engineer, who, after having purchased his own Intellectual Passport CB, joined the USD-System team.
September of 2001 saw the birth of a Canadian company: Univention Inc., managed by Andrew Byrne. This company was mainly created to implement the data and services required to commercialize the Intellectual Passport CB.
In December 2001, Louise Grenier Guay joined USD System’s Canadian team, as an investor and administrator.
On January 16th, 2002, Michel Dubois (& Co) published the book "Passport for prosperity". This book that summarizes nineteen years of philosophical and social analysis of international law, market conditions, innovations and concrete experience in the realm of business, was conceived and created in order to respond to the needs of the USD System consortium’s collaborators, as well as to answer the legitimate questions asked by the public.
On May 31st, 2002, Michel Dubois and François Belleau attended the annual Congress of the University of Toronto, where Professor Michrowski extended Belleau an invitation to lecture on the subject of the Intellectual Passport CB. The integral reproduction of this lecture (written by Michel Dubois and translated by François Belleau) was published in the “Infinite Energy” July-August 2003 edition of the American scientific journal.
On September 30th, 2003, the Tribunal of Commerce of Lyons (France) rendered the first judgment in favour of Pierre Aguesse’s book "Changing the city" against an official state title.
On January 16th, 2004, Volume II of the book "Passport for prosperity" was published under the title " Finally, Intellectual Property affordable to everyone!”.
On April 30th, 2004, Pierre Marcand created the company USD Editions Ltd. in Nevada, U.S.A., which began managing the consortium worldwide. In the meanwhile, Louise Grenier Guay created the non-profit organization USD Club International in orderto ensure that the USD System consultants, agents and licensees abide to the consortium’s code of ethics.
On May 27th, 2004, the Court of Appeal of Lyons upheld the Tribunal of Commerce’s ruling in favour of an early form of the Intellectual Passport CB, created in 1994 by Dominique Daguet’s company Librairie bleue.
On October 10th, 2004, Louise Grenier Guay created a website that more efficiently met the needs of the Intellectual Passport CB‘s clientele. She quickly named it “SOS Invention”, which she planned to put at the service of the consortium through her non-profit organization USD Club International.
On November 23rd, 2004, Michel Dubois met Daniel Melin, a 20-year specialist in insurance company start-ups, and a challenge lover. Convinced of the quality and universality of the Intellectual Passport CB, he offered to create an international network for its distribution. He officially headed the international commercial development of the USD System Consortium.
On January 7th, 2005, the first USD.3 license (covering France) was signed.
By the end of January, Danielle Gagnon joined the USD System’s team. As a professional trilingual teacher, she undertook the USD trainings internationally, which now form a mandatory requisite to all of the new members.
On April 1st, 2005, Andrew Byrne, after spending four years collaborating as much with the translation of the texts, than with the production of the product, and the creation of the website univention.ca, signed a contract with USD Editions Ltd. toward the exclusive production of the Intellectual Passport CB. In that capacity, he led the creation of the product’s industrialization through Univention Inc., following strict confidentiality protocols that were required in such an endeavour.
On June 4th, 2005, the website www.sosinvention.com and USD.3’s commercial network team were introduced in Paris, France. Several lectures were given on this occasion at the Ambassador Hotel.
On June 10th, 2005, Michel Dubois and Mrs. Louise Grenier Guay made the acquaintance of Mr. Salvatore di Palma (former Assistant Director of the W.I.P.O.*and head of the administration department of International Information) in Geneva, Switzerland. During their conversation, Mr. Di Palma offered his assistance and support for the launching of the USD System consortium.
* W.I.P.O: World Intellectual Property Organization.
On July 15th, 2005, Catherine Thiriat sought the USD.2 intercontinental license for Western Europe, following Daniel Mélin’s investigation. This license includes 18 countries + Israel.
On September 1st, 2005, Paul Chaudier became a member of the Ethics Committee.
On September 15th, 2005, Didier Blum sought the USD.2 license for the former Eastern Europe; or 19 countries, including all of Russia.
On October 3rd, 2005, Mr. Éric Freyburger became the license holder for USD.3 France, in association with Daniel Demuth and Paul Chaudier.
On December 1st, 2005, Catherine Thiriat sought the USD.2 intercontinental license for South Asia, which includes India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. On the same day, she also requested the USD.2 intercontinental license for North Africa: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia and Somalia.
On December 25th, 2005, Volume III of the book "Passport for prosperity" was published under the title "Finally, Intellectual Property affordable to everyone!”
On February 27th, 2006, Intellectual Licensing Corporation obtained the USD.3 license for Canada. It subsequently gave the rights to commercialize its license to a new Canadian company, Sovereign One Publishing Inc.
On April 1st, 2006, Bertrand Éliard sought the USD.2 intercontinental license for South-east Asia, including Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Eastern Timor, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Malaysia and Brunei.
On April 5th, 2006, USD Club international welcomed two additions in its offices, whose competence allowed for better services rendered to all of its members. These additions were Monique Lécuyer (USD Consultant since autumn 2005), who sat as Secretary on the Board of administration, and Martin de Passillé (new USD Consultant) who was nominated as Services and Development Manager in computer technology.
On May 16th, 2006, USD System Holding Inc. was dissolved.
On May 25th, 2006, Neal Bucknell and Didier Blum requested the USD.2 intercontinental license for Oceania. This license includes Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand.
On February 2007, license holder potentials Bertrand Éliard, Neal Bucknell, Didier Blum and Catherine Thiriat refused to join USD Club International Inc. ~ the non-profit organization enforcing the USD System Consortium's Code of Ethics ~ thereby terminating their respective license contract proceedings. This situation repeated itself with licensees Paul Chaudier and Daniel Demuth. Mr. Daniel Mélin, who instigated this refusal, was let go during the following weeks.
On June 1st, 2007, Michel Dubois, along with the Consortium team, captured on a 32-minute short footage an introduction of the Intellectual Passport CB. The members of the team featured Martin de Passillé, Gino Salotti and François Belleau, as well as Paul Carvalho. The music was composed by Daniel Scott. This footage can be viewed online, free of charge, at the following address: http://www.sosinvention.com/fr/videos.html
On October 31st, 2007, USD Editions Ltd. called upon Mr. Andrew Byrne to respect the security and confidentiality aspects of his contractual undertakings before midnight on December 31st, 2007. This demand was accompanied by a temporary suspension of his conventional activities.
Failing to fulfill his obligations within the required time resulted in the loss of Andrew Byrne’s exclusive license to produce the Intellectual Passport CB. Consequently, Univention Inc. ceased its operations within the USD System Consortium.
On December 20th, 2007, the USD System Consortium held its first international assembly in Montreal.
On February 1st, 2008, the American C.B. Production LLC company took over Univention Inc.'s license contract, officially committing to fulfill its security and confidentiality aspects, which were not done by its predecessor. Meanwhile, USD Editions Ltd. had temporarily assumed the position of producer starting from November 1st, 2007.
During February of 2008, C.B. Production, the American company that dealt with the service company temporarily hired to assist USD Editions Ltd. during its interim, opened an internal central server, which, hitherto, was a needed addition within the USD System Consortium.
In early March 2008, Mr. Patrice Coste joined the newly created French company C.G.F. Editions, in partnership with Mr. Éric Freyburger, both of whom had already signed their membership with USD Club International Inc., thus ensuring the normal flow of their contractual activities. The company scheduled a conference on Intellectual Property to be held in France in early June 2008.
In Geneva on March 15th, 2008, Michel Dubois met with Mr. Salvatore Di Palma to ask him whether he would preside over the conference. Mr. Di Palma accepted.
April 22nd, 2008, USD System Holdings LLC was created in the United States to assume the Consortium's development worldwide.
At the end of May 2008, the I.D.A.I.P. Association–France was created for the purpose of recruiting French consultants, as well as organizing the conference in Toulouse (France).
As planned, on June 3rd, 2008, the conference took place at the Law Faculty of Toulouse. Mr. Di Palma was accompanied by distinguished guests, including two lawyers, Mr. Nicolas Morvilliers and Mrs. Judith Amalric-Zermatti, as well as Mr. Jacques Combeau (Movement of the French Enterprises) and Mr. Arnaud Raynouard (Vice-President of the Faculty of Social Sciences in Toulouse, head of European Businesses). The conference-debate was hosted by Journalist Valérie Portarrieu. The highlight of this conference was exclusively honed on intellectual property applied to inventions: ‘Patent or Copyright’. Approximately one hundred individuals, and known personalities, were present. Its success entices repeating the experience in other parts of France and throughout the world.
On July 9th, 2008, Copyright Business Ediciones is created in San José, Costa Rica under the Presidency of Mr. Michel Fleury, who assumed leadership of the USD.2 Central America license, covering Mexico – Belize – Nicaragua – Honduras - San Salvador – Guatemala – Costa Rica – Panama – Cuba – Porto Rico – Dominican Rep. – Haiti – Jamaica.
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