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In 2019, American Corsair re-smoothed the leather and acquired hand control maker Scuf Gaming. As a result, the company expanded its product range with manual controls in the premium segment for games on both consoles and PCs, but the purchase also led to a court case against another manufacturer of manual controls, Valve.
Scuf Gaming’s subsidiary Ironburg Inventions found that Valve had infringed its patent 8,641,525, and specifically with respect to the design of its triggerbuttons on the back of the Steam Controller, Techpowerup reports. Valve is said to have become aware of the patent infringement as early as 2014, but aside from Ironburg Invention’s objection, it still made 1.6 million units that infringed the patent.
Now, the current owner of the patent, Corsair, announces that the lawsuit has been heard by a Seattle court and has been decided in favor of the company. The court finds that Valve has deliberately infringed the Ironburg Invention patent and is sentenced to pay “more than 4 million” US dollars in damages. The fact that the jury found that the patent infringement was intentional, according to Corsair, opens the door for tripling the amount of damages in subsequent legal proceedings.
Whether Corsair and Ironburg Inventions will take the lawsuit further doesn’t tell the story, but it is clear that they can charge at least $ 2.5 per manufactured Steam Controller.
