Valve Ordered to Pay $4 Million in Steam Controller Patent Infringement Case Over Back Buttons

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Valve has been ordered to pay $4 million after a jury found that the back grip buttons on the company’s Steam Controllers, which were discontinued at the tail end of 2019, infringed upon patents held by intellectual property holding company Ironburg Inventions. The Corsair subsidiary filed a patent nearly a decade ago for a controller design leveraging “two additional controls located on the back in positions to be operated by the middle fingers” that Valve was alleged to have willfully infringed upon when designing its Steam Controllers.



“[Corsair], a leading global provider and innovator of high-performance gear for gamers and content creators and its subsidiaries Scuf Gaming and Ironburg Inventions Ltd., announce that on February 1, 2021 in the patent infringement case, Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v...

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