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The conservative wave hits France

After France was preserved from conservativism during the last election, it decided this time to join the new wave for conservative protectionism and anti-terror fileism.

Rather than electing the progressive, female candidate Ségolène Royal, the french people decided to continue the wave of conservativism and to elect Nicolas Sarkozy as president.

It is a good question what the french actually expect from Sarkozy. Because what they are likely going to get is:

• EPLA. France might play a major role in the establishment of the European Patent Litigation Agreement, which Sarkozy promised to put forward.
• More anti-terror actionism. Conservative parties tend to put a lot of effort into putting the constitution out of business, overruling it with new legislations and limiting civil rights for the sake of fighting terrorism

Especially the first part is rather worrysome. Sarkozy has a rather rough idea of patents which is mainly backing big business. This moves the balance of patent critcs vs. patent positivists to the negative side in the European Union, which could lead to adoption of the litigation agreement. This would then mean more patent litigation. In the heat of the debate, I highly doubt that this is what Europe needs...

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