There's a reason why european SME organisation CEA-PME is against software patents:

CEAPME (Confederation Europeenne des Associations des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises, European Union of Associations of Small and Medium Enterprises) assembles SME associations from EU member states, totalling a number of 500,000 SME members on its own and 1,600,000 together with two regular partner organisations. FFII is also an associate member of CEAPME. [...]

Ignored by the commission of course. European SME are not the general interest, USA mega-corpos are!