Company Valve lost the court proceedings initiated by the company SCUF, on claims to the gamepad Steam Controller, the design features of which imply the presence of two buttons on the back of the device. The court ruled that Valve used the patented idea of the copyright holder without permission Ironburg Inventions… You can read more about the claim here…
According to the decision of the jury, in the design Steam Controllerdespite a number of discrepancies, there are actually two mechanical buttons on the back of the controller, which directly correlates with a patent registered in 2011 Ironburg Inventions… Based on this, Valve ordered to pay SCUF more $ 4 million as damage…
For context, this is how the controller schematic as registered by SCUF in 2011 looks like:
And here’s what the Steam Controller assembly is:
Lawyers SCUF indicated in court that patent infringement by Valve was deliberate – the company was notified of potential risks back in 2014, but Steam Controller it was still put into production without any significant changes in its design.
Today Valve production and distribution of gamepads Steam Controller is not engaged – they were removed from sale back in 2019, but before that they managed to make money on them.
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