Trial commenced against Valveinitiated by the game controller manufacturer SCUF… Company Gabe Newell accused of violating someone else’s patent in the production of a gamepad Steam Controller…
The essence of claims from the outside Ironburg Inventions (a company that owns the intellectual property of products SCUF) comes down to the fact that in the gamepad Steam Controller there are so-called “petals“- two additional buttons located at the bottom of the case… To use them Ironburg Inventions today licenses some third party companies, including Microsoft…
The fact is that such a construction Ironburg Inventions registered back in 2011, and Valve She started working on her gamepad a little later, in 2013-2014. Already then towards the company Gabe Newell received claims about the use of someone else’s patent, however Valve this did not stop, and she began to produce her own controllers, having realized by 2018 approximately 1.5 million pieces…
In their defense, lawyers Valve explained to the court that despite the existing similarities between the patent Ironburg Inventions and their gamepad, structure and assembly at Steam Controller is absolutely different, so it is impossible to see any legal violations in what happened.
Protecting your interests, Valve sent out her own gamepads to eight jurors so that they themselves could assess the differences between the patent Ironburg Inventions and model Steam Controller… The final decision of the court will be announced later.
Recall that the production of gamepads Steam Contoller stopped completely in the fall of 2019.
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