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If this is true, why then couldn't Arm prevent Qualcomm from using a license agreement they had with a company Qualcomm bought?
The Arm Qualcomm case is bullshit, if you make a license agreement with a company that is later bought by a bigger company, it's no longer the same "legal person". And should absolutely void the license.
Contracts are no where near that standardized, it might just come down to the specific language/clause that was used, either done deliberately or just some lawyer group's normalized process.
Still the contract should be void, when the legal entity ceases to exist.
When a company is bought, it's not the same legal entity or "person".
Seems to me this is merely arbitrary bullshit, where American courts tend to favor American companies.
That depends on how the contract was worded. Suppose intel actually sold physical stuff and had a contract to deliver 100k phones. If the company is sold before fulfilling the contract, the company who bought the phones might want the contract to hold and be fulfilled.
Making a contract fully void because "it's no longer the same entity" is a recipe for scams: sign contract, get money, sell out, "sorry, we're no longer ScamCo, we're ScammCoop".