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