I suppose it depends on your opinions around patents. To me, anything that makes patents more "sticky" is a bad thing. I think patent grants should be scaled

I suppose it depends on your opinions around patents. To me, anything that makes patents more "sticky" is a bad thing. I think patent grants should be scaled back heavily, and patent terms greatly reduced. There's far too much junk that's been awarded patents and then used as a bludgeon by companies to intimidate others (even worse when the company is a patent troll). Even if it's true that these measures would help stop larger companies from stealing patents from smaller firms (I'm skeptical of that), I'd still oppose them.