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Qualcomm Defeats Arm’s Claim Over Chip Design License Breach (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

There's a difference between an order contract an a license.
The license to make Arm CPU was granted to Nuvia not to Qualcomm.

Qualcomm using the license, is the same as transferring or selling it, and that's NOT normal with a patent or copyright license. Except if it is kept within the intended scope.

Qualcomm taking over the license changes the scope, and that would usually be clearly enough to invalidate it.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

No, there is not. A license is just a contract.

Buying a company because they have a license you want is not remotely unusual. It's perfectly standard behavior, and the entire enterprise world would fall apart if an acquisition lost the rights to licenses the purchased business owned.