Comment by fidotron
1 year ago
To be precise, it now appears the dispute has moved as to whether Nuvia had the right to transfer things to Qualcomm.
It strikes me as a surprising diversion to this, and I wonder how prepared for this outcome the respective teams were.
My memory is that before the lawsuit, Qualcomm were using both arguments, "we have the right to transfer the licence, and even if we didn't, we have our own license".
The first argument was always the weaker argument, the license explicitly banned licence transfers between companies without explicit prior permission. Qualcomm were arguing that the fact they already had a licence counted as prior permission.
But ARM bypassed that argument by just terminating the Nuvia licence, and by the time of the lawsuit qualcomm was down to the second argument. Which was good, it was the much stronger argument.
But is it even a second company (and thus a license transfer) if Qualcomm bought Nuvia?
I was wondering about that too. If I understand correctly, the Arm license includes a clause stipulating that it is invalidated if the company is acquired unless Arm grants permission.
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It could be. Rumor is Intel (or AMD in the same situation) would lose the cross licensed parts of their x86 license if they were acquired.
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