Valve’s Steam Controller has been discontinued for quite some time now, but it popped back up in headlines earlier this year when a judge ruled that Valve had committed patent infringement with the controller’s design, ordering Valve to pay $4 million to custom gamepad company, SCUF. Valve tried to request a new trial to get the ruling reversed, but this request has since been denied. SCUF, a well-known custom controller company that was acquired by CORSAIR in 2019, has won a legal case against Valve. SCUF argued that the back paddle buttons on the Steam Controller violated one of its patents. A jury agreed and US Judge, Thomas Zilly, fined Valve $4 million for the infringement.