This looks like a way to enforce social governance by secondary means. e.g. "company X, you must adopt these policies or we will use these esoteric things you c

This looks like a way to enforce social governance by secondary means. e.g. "company X, you must adopt these policies or we will use these esoteric things you can't reason about to use litigation to isolate you from investors and major customers." It is utterly pernicious, especially because they are apparently collecting bundles of low quality patents that are primarily a source of legal uncertainty that they can leverage politically via legal channels. Whether patent aggregators like this are the intent of IP regulation is dubious, and this organization seems like an arbitrage play against a convention to not be an anti-social PoS. The two factors that could make this a storm are that a) schools are very likely not bound by anti-competitive regulations that would prevent them colluding to create a provisional militant lawfare body to engage in threatening other organizations, and b) the architecture of the patent system does not anticipate someone aggregating patents based on their weakness and uncertainty to weild as a political weapon. Maybe this is uncharitable, but as someone who remembers the total nonsense vortex that was SCO the first time around, and in security I have watched the various efforts to establish influence over FOSS via crypto backdoors and other means, this effort looks like a macro-strategic play to seize the means of production.