• Copenhagen Suborbitals’ core team overlaps with Illutron, a Danish hackerspace/artist collective operating from an old barge that also houses three progressively larger DIY midget submarines built by the project’s lead prior to the rocketry effort.  
• A proposed “CC Plant Breeders Right License” and broader open-source biology discussions were linked to Via Campesina’s seed-sovereignty campaign, highlighting tensions between open biology and traditional IP regimes.  
• Bruce Perens contributed a concise legal clarification to the open-hardware definition mailing list, noting that U.S. copyright (17 U.S.C. §102(b)) does not cover electronic circuit ideas, only patents do, limiting the enforceability of open-hardware licenses on manufactured devices.  
• Global Innovation Commons was showcased as a searchable repository of public-domain patents (e.g., all Russian sickle-cell patents), accompanied by claims that trillions of dollars in IP have been “liberated” for global use.  
• DIYBio community infrastructure advanced with Jonano setting up a phpBB forum at www.diybio.biz to coordinate distributed biohacking efforts.  
• SKDB (the “apt-get for hardware” project) was revisited: participants suggested writing a new whitepaper to replace the aging dokuwiki documentation and lamented the lack of a live RepRap demo packaged in SKDB format.  
• A playful proposal imagined corrupting SKDB with “fakemon” metadata so every manufactured object would emerge as a Pokémon-shaped device whose move-set encoded its functional specifications.  
• Patent landscaping was demonstrated with an interactive PGM (platinum-group metals) patent map (2003-2007) showing geographic clustering of Pt, Pd, and combined Pt-Pd filings.  
• Nature paper “Systemic signals regulate ageing and rejuvenation of blood stem cell niches” was circulated, then immediately flagged as retracted, illustrating the fragility of high-impact stem-cell claims.  
• Citizen-science mobile efforts gained visibility via CNN coverage of Project Noah, the networked-organisms wildlife-reporting iPhone app.