My immediate concern would be a possible over valuation of IP worth leading to an accelerated IT bubble. For better or for worse our markets are open, aggressively, adversarial places wherein everything is monetized. The process will no doubt accelerate as management types stake out their fiefdoms and fight for funding.

What use is patenting loads of clever ideas if you only use them to continue selling an existing product?

Windows would be the classic example, Microsoft patent as much as possible to protect their existing products. This provides them with no additional income.

Just an example of how it favors the larger companies more than the smaller ones.