Arm and Qualcomm have become the worst best partners. Late last Friday afternoon, inside the U.S. District Courthouse in Wilmington, Del., the jury in a bitter case between two computer-chip giants, Arm Holdings and Qualcomm handed a win to Qualcomm — with an asterisk.

A tense court case between Qualcomm and Arm kicked off last Monday, December 16 and the jury has already returned a verdict. While the case ended in a mistrial, with the jury unable to come to a verdict on one of the three questions at the heart of the case,