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Judge Seeks Proposed Scheduling Order in Arm v. Qualcomm

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika for Delaware, in an oral order Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-01146), instructed Arm and Qualcomm to confer on a proposed scheduling order for submission to the court by Dec. 16. Arm’s Aug. 16 complaint alleges that Qualcomm,…

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after its $1 billion Nuvia buy, caused Nuvia to breach its Arm licenses, leading Arm to terminate those licenses, in turn requiring Qualcomm and Nuvia to stop using and destroy any Arm-based technology developed under the licenses. Qualcomm and Nuvia nevertheless have continued working on Nuvia’s implementation of Arm architecture in violation of Arm’s rights as the creator and licensor of its technology, it alleges. “Qualcomm’s conduct indicates that it has already and further intends to use Arm’s trademarks to advertise and sell the resulting products” in the U.S., even though those products are unlicensed, said the complaint. Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit 2022 Wednesday to tease about the 2023 debut of a new line of custom CPUs, branded Oryon, using technology inherited in the Nuvia acquisition. Noreika instructed Arm and Qualcomm in their proposed scheduling order to estimate “the length and timing of trial.”