http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3302121
Brief article discussing the thesis that companies are stockpiling patents as a way of extracting licensing fees. Even if the patent is contestable, it may be cheaper to pay the fee than to fight the case in court. The long term implications of this for software developers are extremely negative.
More to the point, the stockpiling of patents as a litigation weapon seems a perverse frustration of the original intent of patenting, which was to increase the spread of useful knowledge.
I am firmly on the side of those who consider the current state of software patenting to be broken -- I am less sanguine that it ever can be repaired.
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