Access to the law includes access to the harmonised standards it predicates. But is it right that those standards can include royalty-due patents (SEPs)?

Update: Graduated to the OSI Blog.

I just read a news story about how Chinese tech companies are threatening Europe by registering so many patents. Turns out it's in the context of “open standards” and is actually Chinese companies copying what European multinationals have done for years with patents embedded in standards. That Sword of Damocles cuts both ways.