Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins $2

40 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by LorenDB
(techpowerup.com)

9 Comments

pavel_lishin

10 hours ago

Finally, a corporation gets to have the same sort of class-action-lawsuit experience that we common folk do!

sidewndr46

9 hours ago

It'd be payable in a visa card if that was the case

jubilanti

10 hours ago

The real issue is not the damages, but:

> whether Arm's breach lets Qualcomm stop paying royalties under the ALA for five years, which, by some estimates, could be worth billions of dollars

Which is the next decision for the court. It is a clickbait headline, shame on the author too.

(Reposting this as a top level comment in case the low effort one I reply to gets downvoted)

WheelsAtLarge

6 hours ago

Why the FU to Qualcomm? Obviously the Jury/Judge did not think there was much economic damage but how about Non-Economic Damages? I would think that there would be some of those?

tester756

11 hours ago

Why people are not talking about the REAL winners?

How much lawyers made!

jubilanti

10 hours ago

Classic HN low-effort first post that could be written from just the headline.

The real issue is not the damages, but:

> whether Arm's breach lets Qualcomm stop paying royalties under the ALA for five years, which, by some estimates, could be worth billions of dollars

Which is the next decision for the court. It is a clickbait headline, shame on the author too.

tester756

8 hours ago

Of course this this whole thing is bigger than that, but that "$1"

figure appearing everywhere around this topic makes it look funny and cute and that's what I wanted to joke about