This is an intriguing approach but you need to watch out for unintended consequences.<p>If patent licensing carries with it x risk in addition to the benefits, and suddenly that risk becomes 2x or 5x or 10x (depending on how one quantifies the risk of forfeiture of the cumulative royalties, plus associated penalty), I would think this have an adverse effect on the patent licensing market in causing the licensing parties to increase the royalty rates to help offset the heightened risks.<p>Don't know how this might affect the troll market for licensing but it might have this unintended impact on legitimate licensing deals of all types (ones that have nothing to do with the dubious patents found at the margins).