> Presumably ARM never owned Nuvia's IP: why would they have negotiated that, given they already had license control?
That seems to me to be the key point in contention, or at least whether or not ARM owns the right to prevent Nuvia from selling IP that Nuvia created. As Qualcomm's lawyers put it
> 25. Second, ARM was claiming a right to control the transfer of NUVIA technology when NUVIA’s ALA provided no such rights to ARM.
and as ARM's lawyers put it
> 25. Arm denies the allegations in paragraph 25.
Note if you deny in part you say which part you are denying and which part you are admitting, thus here they are denying the statement entirely, and thus claiming they had the rights to control the transfer of NUVIA technology (which is also the broader theme of the filing).
Without being able to actually see the contractual terms I don't see how the public could conclude which side is right in this dispute, but basically everything seems to center on this. Either ARM's license grants them control over technology Nuvia created, even if all the confidential information that technology was based off of is no longer confidential, and/or the party you are trying to transfer it to has licenses to all the technology it was based off of (and ARM probably wins), or it doesn't (and Qualcomm probably wins).
If I was thinking about doing business with arm I'd want to be very sure that whatever agreements I signed where of the second form, or I was getting a huge company-altering discount in exchange for them being of the first form.
That seems to me to be the key point in contention, or at least whether or not ARM owns the right to prevent Nuvia from selling IP that Nuvia created. As Qualcomm's lawyers put it
> 25. Second, ARM was claiming a right to control the transfer of NUVIA technology when NUVIA’s ALA provided no such rights to ARM.
and as ARM's lawyers put it
> 25. Arm denies the allegations in paragraph 25.
Note if you deny in part you say which part you are denying and which part you are admitting, thus here they are denying the statement entirely, and thus claiming they had the rights to control the transfer of NUVIA technology (which is also the broader theme of the filing).
Without being able to actually see the contractual terms I don't see how the public could conclude which side is right in this dispute, but basically everything seems to center on this. Either ARM's license grants them control over technology Nuvia created, even if all the confidential information that technology was based off of is no longer confidential, and/or the party you are trying to transfer it to has licenses to all the technology it was based off of (and ARM probably wins), or it doesn't (and Qualcomm probably wins).
If I was thinking about doing business with arm I'd want to be very sure that whatever agreements I signed where of the second form, or I was getting a huge company-altering discount in exchange for them being of the first form.