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Sony is trying to patent its Back Button Attachment accessory for the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4. Back in 2019, the company launched a programmable button attachment that connects to the underside of the controller. The gaming giant doesn’t give the patent a name and refers to it as an add-on with buttons that “may be mapped to controller buttons using customized button mapping pre-sets.” It also offers a few diagrams showing how it works.   Sony filed the patent in the U.S. in the summer of 2019 and internationally with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in J...

First Zoom patent jury trial sees Valve fined $4 million 05-02-2021 Valve has been fined $4 million after being found to have infringed a video game controller patent. Ironburg Inventions, the IP holding arm of hardware manufacturer SCUF, filed the suit against Valve in 2017, claiming that the company’s Steam Controller infringed its rear-fitted paddle lever controller. The trial was the first of its kind to take place over Zoom, ending in Valve being ordered to pay $4,029,533.93, with the possibility of supra-compensatory damages. “Valve did know that its conduct involved an unreasonable...

Valve's 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 Corsair's Scuf Gaming designs. The particular infringement was in the implementation of back paddles on the controller. Notably, Microsoft paid Corsair's 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 Becker, from Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, told jurors during the case hearing. Ironburg made seven...