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3 February 2021, 11:35 pm EST By Valve Steam Controller Made the Company Lose $4 Million: Heres Why the Product was Discontinued  ( Screenshot From Linus Tech Tips Official YouTube Channel ) Valves very own Steam Controller was said to be a quirky device where the company tried to combine the accuracy of a mouse along with the functionality of most traditional game c...

Valve was initially warned in 2014, back when it was prototyping the hardware on February 4, 2021, 7:06 What just happened? A jury has unanimously found willful infringement on Valves part regarding the use of "rear-side control surfaces" (or back paddles) on its Steam Controller and ordered the company to pay $4 million in damages to Corsair-owned Ironburg Inventions and SCUF. Ironburg Inventions and SCUF, the Corsair-owned maker of high-end performance controllers and ho...

Valves Steam Controller design looks like it is going to cost the firm US$4 million in damages as a US court has decided it infringed upon Corsairs Scuf Gaming designs. The particular infringement was in the implementation of back paddles on the controller. Notably, Microsoft paid Corsairs patent holding Ironburg Inventions $6 million to use the IP in its Xbox Wireless Elite performance controllers. Meanwhile, Valve intentionally disregarded the potential infringement, Ironburg lawyer Robert Be...

Valve lawsuit loss means this Steam Controller cost $4-million Chris Burns - Feb 4, 2021, 10:38am CST The folks at SCUF and Ironburg Inventions sued Valve a few years ago for patent infringement. They claimed that Valve’s “Steam Controller” was made without the proper paperwork, working with SCUF to license their patents for back-facing paddle controls. But wait, you might be saying, the Steam Controller isn’t the only controller with back-facing paddles, right? You�...

Valve has lost its case against SCUF over the Steam Controller, with a court fining the company $5.2 million for patent infringement.

A court has determined that the Steam Controller violated SCUF patents.

Jury ruled that company willfully infringed on patent when it manufactured Steam Controller

Score one for Ironburg Inventions and SCUF. The first-of-its-kind virtual patent infringement case against Valve has concluded in favor of Ironburg Inventions. The loss, in this case, will cost Valve a total of $4 million, which, for a company as large as Valve, certainly won’t hurt. The patent, held by Ironburg Inventions for SCUF controllers, is specifically for certain buttons on controllers. If you’re familiar with the Xbox Elite controllers, you’ll know what these are, as SCUF licen...

Image: Valve To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. The Steam Controller hasn’t been relevant for years, but it’s back in the news again. SCUF is suing Valve for allegedly — and knowingly — infringing on its patents for video game controllers when it designed the Steam Controller...

The accusations come from Ironburg Inventions, the IP-holding branch of controller maker SCUF, Law360 reported. The trial is taking place on Zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions, with opening arguments seeing Ironburgs lawyer Robert Becker explaining that Valve was "warned" in 2014 that its Steam Controller, only a prototype then, was featuring the same "rear-side control surfaces Ironburg had just patented." Valve carried on with its prototype though, releasing the Steam Controller in 2015 and s...