Tom Brady NFL Career Analogies Swapped in Intel Patent Trial

Tom Brady became a point of back-and-forth in the patent trial between Intel Corp. and VLSI Technology LLC on Wednesday, as jurors heard Intel could owe a “very, very large number.”

Intel has argued that none of the companies that owned the patents before VLSI acquired them in 2018 used the technology in “real-world” products. The patents relate to power savings and performance improvements in microprocessors.

Ryan Sullivan, president of Intensity LLC and VLSI’s economic expert, critiqued Intel’s damages model, which includes looking at some of Intel’s earlier patent transactions. Sullivan said they weren’t useful in determining damages because they ...