An arbitration panel has ordered Qualcomm Inc. to pay $815 million plus attorney fees and interest to resolve a dispute over a patent license agreement.

Details of the arbitration are being kept private amid government, class action and licensee lawsuits over Qualcomm licensing practices. According to a statement issued by Qualcomm, the arbitration decided only the narrow issue of whether BlackBerry was entitled to refunds of royalties on phone and chip modem sales that exceeded per-unit caps. The refunds covered sales from 2010 through 2015.

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