Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in damages, finds Arm breached agreement
reuters.comI 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.
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.
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."
I hope Arm appeals :)
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.
Does McDonalds still have the dollar menu?
only if you want water, a coffee at certain times of the day, or a sauce with no other food.
If you go to Qualcomm's page about it winning this verdict you realize the company is flat out misrepresenting that this is a nothing burger, that in fact ARM won the other four charges.
https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases/new...
Please god I hope it was paid with a 2 dollar bill.