- Joseph Jackson’s Open Science Summit talk was posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMxYymZ8Zqo, accompanied by a separate short video “Why do open hardware?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ0OPT5s9aQ.

- Discussion of a “fair-troll” business model: a company amasses patents, licenses them only under the Defensive Patent License (DPL) for defensive use, and sues everyone outside the pool, creating a legally enforced open-innovation zone.

- Concern raised that such a “fair troll” could later defect and monetize its portfolio offensively; participants explored contractual safeguards, including a $1 buy-back clause letting original inventors dedicate their patents to the public domain if the troll misbehaves.

- USPTO rules cited showing that patentees can file a terminal disclaimer to disclaim the entire remaining term or any portion of it, providing a formal mechanism for early patent retirement (37 CFR 1.321).

- Participants debated whether assigning patents to a cooperative or trust structure, rather than a single entity, could further reduce the risk of strategic betrayal while still deterring external patent aggression.