Considering that EEF have been hitting that same note for quite a while, I would find that unlikely
>These companies can more easily crush competition by buying them up rather than suing them.
The fear that is being currently generated is that small companies will start choosing to not deal with the problems of running a tech business by themselves since the risk and cost of dealing with litigations is so high. That scenario would ensure that the small companies can never grow to be become the future large corporations.
> I would bet none of the large tech companies would risk the PR fallout.
There is not a single week that Microsoft does no do that. The reason that they are able to get away with it without a massive media backslash is that no data about what actual patents that are being infringed is released to the public.
>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=
Your last paper links to nothing.
Also please avoid overusing slangs as it makes your posts hard to read.