The license belonged to the acquired not the acquirer. A more apt analogy would be if Microsoft gave the source code of Office to a research center and IBM the

The license belonged to the acquired not the acquirer. A more apt analogy would be if Microsoft gave the source code of Office to a research center and IBM then tried to resell their version of the office suite after buying the research center. To me out feels very similar to how a spyware company might want to buy a VPN just for their personal data. Except that here there is an actual contract forbidding this. My uninformed opinion is that Qualcomm is perfectly allowed to keep all the assets and artifacts that Nuvia produced, but is not allowed to create chips based on them