Arm sues Qualcomm, aiming to unwind Qualcomm's $1.4B Nuvia purchase
Found a tiny bit more information on arm&#x27;s press site : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arm.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;arm-files-lawsuit-against-qualcomm-and-nuvia-for-breach-of-license-agreements-and-trademark-infringement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arm.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;arm-files-lawsuit-a...</a><p>&gt; Because Qualcomm attempted to transfer Nuvia licenses without Arm’s consent, which is a standard restriction under Arm’s license agreements, Nuvia’s licenses terminated in March 2022. Before and after that date, Arm made multiple good faith efforts to seek a resolution.<p>If I understand this correctly, arm&#x27;s licences have an approval process in case of acquisitions for license transfer (which is pretty common), and Qualcomm thought that because they had their own (probably a lot broader) set of arm licenses, they didn&#x27;t need to seek their approval (or more likely, didn&#x27;t want to pay some extra transfer cost ?) ?<p>I can see Qualcomm&#x27;s argument from a layman&#x27;s point of view, arm claims that something designed by licensee A can&#x27;t be transferred to licensee B without their approval, which seems a bit broad of a reach but contracts are weird I guess ? There&#x27;s no doubt Nuvia&#x27;s contracts was less favorable to whatever set of licenses Qualcomm operates with arm (relative company sizes and all).<p>Reuters article goes on about Qualcomm eventually ditching arm&#x27;s Cortex designs and replacing them by Nuvia&#x27;s being what this is about. That seems a bit of a stretch, and would be a large pivot in how arm used to operate with its licensees that would send a chilling effect if true.<p>So I&#x27;d be quite surprised if that was the case, considering arm is not under new management. I&#x27;m not saying there can&#x27;t be tensions or bruised execs egos on both sides about this, but this seems a bit of a radical step to suspend Nuvia&#x27;s license and ask that all their design IP be destroyed.