Valve Gets Shot at Game Controller Patent Infringement Retrial

Gaming company Valve Corp. could get a redo of a trial where it was hit with a $4 million verdict over alleged infringement of a video game controller patent held by a rival company.

In February 2021, jurors in Washington found Bellevue-based Valve willfully infringed Ironburg Inventions Ltd.’s US Patent No. 8,641,525, awarding $4.02 million in damages. Ironburg holds the intellectual property of controller maker SCUF Gaming International LLC, which in turn is owned by CORSAIR Gaming Inc.

At trial, however, Valve was prevented from making certain arguments about the ‘525 patent’s invalidity, according to the US Court of ...