‘It’s an Outrageous Demand’: VLSI and Intel Talk Money and Credibility as Trial Closes

Jurors began their deliberations in VLSI v. Intel Tuesday morning in Waco faced with a decision whether to follow the advice by VLSI’s lawyers given in Monday’s closing arguments to award their client billions of dollars or side with Intel that the requested damages are an “outrageous” amount and award VLSI nothing. 

“Nobody’s ever paid anything remotely like the amount of money VLSI is seeking … that isn’t the real world,” Intel lawyer Joseph Mueller of WilmerHale told jurors Monday afternoon. “It’s an outrageous demand and it tells you about the character of the case.”