As the title states, Valve, the company behind Steam, has been ordered to pay Corsair 4 million USD in damages over a Steam Controller Patent Infringement.

Valve got warned back in 2014 that their Steam Controller infringed on their patent relating to rear-side control surfaces. Valve choose to ignore that warning and produced 1.6 million units before discontinuing the device in 2019. And now they've been fined.

Corsair Gaming, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRSR) (“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. Valve Corp, US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle the jury unanimously found that Valve Corp infringed Ironburg’s 8,641,525 controller patent and awarded Ironburg over $4 million. In addition, the jury unanimously found willful infringement by Valve Corp. The jury verdict of willful infringement is the first step to a potential award of enhanced damages up to the statutory limit of treble damages.

Valve ordered to pay 4 Million USD to Corsair over Steam Controller Patent Infringement