Monday, July 5, 2010

ClarkMorgan Steals and Uses IP!

-The last time that I wrote anything on this blog was over a year ago. At the time, our company had been accused by Morry Morgan of stealing and using his company's IP in our training. Since then, on more than one occasion, Morry Morgan has called clients of ours in order to "scare" them out of using us as their training vendor. In the two cases that I am aware of, Morry's tactic has failed.

In fact, it appears that Morry Morgan really is not concerned about IP theft, at least when his company and trainers are the ones committing the theft. Please consider the following facts:

In the March 2007 issue of Network HR, a ClarkMorgan magazine that is sent out to approximately 8,000 HR professionals across China, there appeared an article titled: "Mind Over Matter - Using A Positive Mental Approach To Master Presentation Skills."

The article was written by ClarkMorgan's National Corporate Training Manager. Except that it really wasn't. In fact, the National Corporate Training manager plagiarized the article from the website of Ed Sykes and then signed his name to it. You may read the original at this link:

www.thesykesgrp.com/PresentationSkillsPublicSpeakingArticle02.htm

Should you wish to see a copy of the plagiarized article that appeared in Network HR magazine, I will be happy to provide you with a copy. When Mr. Morgan found out about the plagiarized article, which I informed him about, did he fire his manager? No. That individual continued in his role as National Corporate Training Manager for ClarkMorgan and continued to work as a trainer for the company.

So much for Morry Morgan's claims about wanting to protect IPR.


Further, On Thursday, July16th, 2009 and Friday, July 17th, 2009, ClarkMorgan Corporate Training conducted two 3-hour seminar training demonstrations in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. The trainer demonstrated Psycho-Geometrics, a communication model developed by Dr. Susan Dillinger. Psycho-Geometrics is a registered trademark and in order to conduct and/or sell this training, you must be a registered Psycho-Geometrics trainer and/or company. As well, there is a substantial fee which must be paid in order to obtain the training rights. See the link below.

http://www.psychogeometrics.com/opportunities.php

Neither ClarkMorgan nor that were licensed at that time to conduct or sell this training. This was a clear violation of Susan Dillinger and Psycho-Geometrics trademark and IPR. Should you wish to contact Susan Dillinger regarding this matter, I will be happy to provide you with her contact information.

Where is that trainer today? He is still working for ClarkMorgan, training. You can see a video of him on their website. He used stolen property that he had no rights to use, demo'd it with the purpose of selling this training to ClarkMorgan clients, and Morry Morgan knows about all of this but still allows this trainer to train for his company.

Is Morry Morgan truly concerned about IP theft?

1 comment:

  1. http://www.networkhr.com/issue/29-outstanding-introductions-in-five-easy-steps/

    An article by Ed Sykes.

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