Alain Souloumiac

Alain Souloumiac

Born	1948
Birthplace	Rouen
Nationality	French
Ocupation	President of the WcS
Notable work	Creabook Creafree

Alain Souloumiac (born 8 November 1948) is a French Professor in Law who created the Universal Standard for Intellectual Properties, CREAFREE.

Birth

Alain Souloumiac was born in the harbor of Rouen (France) three years after the end of WWII (1948). During the war, his father and his crew joined the allied forces with their ship to fight the Nazi Slave State. His mother, Suzanne Hiltermann , was a member of the réseau de résistance called Dutch -Paris. This réseau saved the lives of more than a hundred allied pilots that had fallen in the occupied European continent. She was caught by the Gestapo and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the war, she received the Medal of Freedom from President Truman.

Life & Career

Vocation

Growing up, Alain Souloumiac would attend King Georges V in Hong-Kong where he would learn to speak English fluently (1962-1964). He grew up living in the free harbor that was built by the English to trade with China. It was there that he began to understand the economic potential in the free movement of goods. When Alain returned to France (Ecole Alsacienne, in Paris), he became interested in Intellectual Property in relation with take-off of under-developed countries. His close friend, Jacques Zazzo, inspired the concept of creation, source of all wealth. Fifty years later, this concept became the major topic of his book on the standard for creators.

Studies

Alain led different studies in several fields. He obtained a Master in Political Science, a Master in Economics and a Master in Public Law. He graduated cum laude with a Ph.D. in Law , in 1979. During his Public Law curses, he studied Environment Law and Public Freedom with a renown French constitutionalist, Professor Waline. Alain also had an internship at the Compagnie International d’Informatique about New Technology of Information and Communication (NTIC). Intellectual property, public freedom, environment law and NTIC were the major inputs of the standard for creators which he later designed.

Reference to standards

Alain Souloumiac studied environment law at Panthéon-Sorbonne. Soon after starting the beginning of his lectures at Paris University, he gained the attention of Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of the French Government. Alain was requested to undertake a study on Data processing within the Public Administration . In the report published by La Documentation Française (1983), he recommended a new dynamic procurement policy based on Reference to Standards. This standard policy was used to remove technical barriers, draft standards for common harmony and build the European Union and the Global World.

Optical Keyboards

Implementing his standard policy, he launched in 1985 the ISO (International Standard Organization) Standard 9995 which defines the computer keyboards layout. Alain created the Company Quintel SA to exploit the new keyboard standard. He also took several patents to protect a new technology of optical keyboards. These keyboards completed the Tempest Test performed at the Ministry of Defense. Tempest Keyboards cannot be traced by foreign intelligence agencies because they do no emit any radio waves. Alain Souloumiac’s patents were infringed by a bigger company. He finally won the Legal dispute which lasted over 12 years.

Global Law's transpositions

Alain Souloumiac was chosen by the European Union (EU) as First Expert for the enlargement of the EU. His mission consisted in defining a methodology to implement the European Treaties into the national legislation of 10 future members. In 2008 and 2011, Alain would create two new software programs: The Computer-assisted Transposition which helped several countries to harmonize their national legislation with International Treaties. The second program was Mutual evaluation Module. It was designed to share the best governmental practice in implementing Climate Change.

Author's right for software

Alain was later appointed as an advisor to the President of the French and the European Inventor Association. He was the author of a letter to the French Government that recommends it implements author’s right to encourage private initiative and technological innovations. This letter influenced President Mitterrand who collaborated with President Clinton to write article 10 of the World Trade Agreement on intellectual property. They both agreed that the Bern’s Convention on author’s right, prepared by Victor Hugo at the end of the XIX century, should rule the world’s major wealth: software. Article 10 reads as follows: “Computer programs, whether in source or object code, shall be protected as literary works under the Berne Convention.”

Creator's standard

Georges Herrmann , President of the European Inventor Association, suggested just before he died, that Alain Souloumiac uses his legal expertise to draft a standard protection implementing the rights proclaimed by the International Treaties. This standard is described in the book called How to establish your intellectual property. Alain wrote this book in 2018 to educate readers on the importance of developing creation to face the world present challenges.

Creabooks

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  goto the Creafree page.

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  goto the Crea page.