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In its “FRAND” Guidelines (“guidelines”), the Schoen Court made a lot of mistakes in its baseline assumptions, its legal analysis and its conclusions. It even made a number of mistakes in its citations. One of those mistakes occurs in paragraph 6 of the guidelines where the Schoen Court complains that the European Commission’s amicus curiae briefs in the proceedings that led to the Federal Court of Justice’s (“BGH”) “FRAND Objection III” decision (BGH KZR 10/25, GRUR 2026, 3

I have posted several times about Huawei’s scandalous behavior and growing domination of several standard setting/development organizations. This behavior includes “stuffing the ballot box in group voting” in the 802.11 working group, which came to light when a Huawei patent portfolio manager accidentally sent an email intended for another Huawei employee (who is Vice-Chair of the 802.11 working group) to the entire 802.11 email reflector.[1] I have also written extensively