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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 licensed the design to Microsoft. Those small back paddles on specialized controllers are patented by SCU...

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. A jury trial began this week in New York, and the case has already gotten pretty wild.

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 Ironburg's 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 selling 1.5 million units as of September 2018. The patent in question is U.S. Patent No. 8,641,525...