Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in damages, finds Arm breached agreement

18 pointsposted a day ago
by saikatsg

9 Comments

free_bip

21 hours ago

I expected this to be a title typo ($2m instead of $2) but no, that's the correct number. I'm not informed on this case so I have to wonder why, the article doesn't say.

toast0

20 hours ago

Juries can be kind of random. If it's hard to figure out what the dollar amount of damages should be, they might pick a small or big number to be done.

mrandish

18 hours ago

The jury must've felt that Qualcomm prevailed on the legal merits but thought Qualcomm's damage claims were bullshit. Juries tend to be pretty emotional. When they feel one party clearly wronged the other, they can award extravagant damages, which is why jury damages are often later reduced by judges for being unjustified.

Conversely, when they award $2.00 of damages, to me they're telling Qualcomm "You're technically right but shouldn't have wasted everyone's time bringing this stupid lawsuit."

tssva

17 hours ago

The jury awarded $2 but the jury's ruling means that the judge in the case can now in a future ruling ban Arm from collecting licensing fees from Qualcomm for 5 years. This would be billions of dollars lost for Arm.

BobbyTables2

19 hours ago

Does McDonalds still have the dollar menu?

RiverCrochet

18 hours ago

only if you want water, a coffee at certain times of the day, or a sauce with no other food.

Der_Einzige

21 hours ago

Please god I hope it was paid with a 2 dollar bill.