>> I thought that QCOM had a patent on anything that uses CDMA technology.
You are in good company. Dr. Irwin Jacobs, who many consider an authority, is of the same opinion. So are a number of qcom licensees, who you can be assured researched the extent of qcom's ipr carefully before signing up, including Ericsson, Samsung, Hitachi, etc.
>> Are they claiming that WCDMA is a totally new technology and so different from CDMA that the patents do not apply?
They (as in Nokia, Motorola, etc.) have not made that claim. Rather, they have proudly associated development of wcdma with the gsm camp, implying that wcdma just might not be based on qcom ipr.
>> Is the battle plan to go to Euro courts who will say WCDMA is outside the CDMA patent because it is so different?
I would think that qcom, as the injured party, would be the one to initiate any legal action, and since they are a US company trying to protect US issued patents, the courtroom would probably be in the US.
>> If this is true, it would seem that there would be a major court case going on right now WCDMA people vs CDMA people.
Since WCDMA products are not being sold, and haven't been demonstrated outside a lab (and even that's an allegation, not a fact), there is no basis for qcom to initiate a suit. So far, this is just a war of press releases.
I'm not a lawyer or an engineer, so what I'm offering are my impressions and are not offered as factual. I'd suggest you poke around the various Q threads and come to your own conclusions.
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