I think you're right on the amendment. This from December 12th,
....QUALCOMM has essential patents for the WCDMA standard and has now licensed some or all of its essential patents to more than 30 companies to manufacture WCDMA equipment. Each licensed manufacturer has agreed to pay QUALCOMM the same royalty for WCDMA as that licensed manufacturer is paying for other CDMA standards, including cdmaOne and cdma2000. Some of the companies now licensed to manufacture WCDMA equipment include Advantest, Agilent, Alps, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Glenayre Electronics, Handspring, Hitachi, Hyundai, Kyocera, LG, Lucent, Matsushita, Maxon, Motorola, NEC, Nortel, OKI, Philips, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony, Tektronix, Toshiba, Willtech and other Japanese and Korean licensees expected to be announced shortly....
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