Williams said that while his team started with Arm architecture, the Nuvia final designs included "one or less than one percent" of Arm technology. But he acknowledged that contract language could support Arm's version. To counter Arm's claims, Qualcomm's attorney stressed Nuvia's design independence of chips.

However, the outcome of this case could have a wide-ranging impact on intellectual property licensing and mergers and acquisitions in the broader tech industry.