UNC and Red Hat Hosting Symposium on IP and Innovation

November 1, 2005

I just wanted to call attention to this announcement that came across the TMCnet news feeds today:

The University of North Carolina, with Support from Red Hat, to Host Symposium for Intellectual Property, Creativity, and the Innovation Process

Aside from my connections to the Triangle area and�UNC (born there, went to school there), my interest in this item�has to do with�the topics of intellectual property (the other IP)�and innovation.

Linux developer Red Hat is sponsoring the�"UNC Symposium for Intellectual Property, Creativity, and the Innovation Process" Nov. 1-2, 2005, in Chapel Hill, N.C. The symposium will examine issues of copyright, open source software, patents, public domain, P2P and others. Today's announcement says that the UNC law school plans to develop a "specialized center" as an outgrowth of the symposium, created to "reflect the best thinking of the best minds on intellectual property, creativity, and the innovation process."

AB -- 11/1/05