In recent years, businesses of all shapes and sizes have seized upon opportunities to advertise within the video game industry, and particularly in connection with esports games. As an.
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Clear Exhibits, Abrupt Goodbyes: Life As A Zoom Juror
Law360 (February 9, 2021, 4:38 PM EST) As courts tiptoe into the new realm of the Zoom jury trial, the legal world has heard wisdom aplenty from lawyers and judges lucky enough to have been among the first participants. But there s one critical group from which little has been heard: the Zoom juror.
Law360 interviewed one of the jurors who earlier this month awarded $4 million to game controller company Ironburg Inventions in the first patent case in federal court to be heard by a jury over Zoom. During the weeklong trial in the Western District of Washington between Ironburg and Valve Corp., the eight remote jurors were.
Valve lawsuit loss means this Steam Controller cost $4-million
Chris Burns - Feb 4, 2021, 10:38am CST
The folks at SCUF and Ironburg Inventions sued Valve a few years ago for patent infringement. They claimed that Valve’s “Steam Controller” was made without the proper paperwork, working with SCUF to license their patents for back-facing paddle controls. But wait, you might be saying, the Steam Controller isn’t the only controller with back-facing paddles, right? You’re right!
SCUF holds a whopping 105 patents for designs that include all manner of controller buttons and triggers. These include “rear-side control surfaces” as included in their original lawsuit filing. SCUF is very good at creating and patenting video game controller triggers, levers, and buttons.
You have like 500 new demos to play in the Steam Game Festival right now by: Randy - posted: 2/3/2021 1:17:00 PM More On:
Valve Corp. is putting on the Steam Game Festival right now. Running from Feb. 3–9, that leaves you less than one week to download each and every one of the 500+ playable demos that are suddenly all over Steam. Most of these would fall into the indie category, if we needed a label, but man if you haven t seen indie games lately and how gorgeous so many of them look then you re missing out, don t make me tell you.
Some of these games have been chilling on my Wishlist for ages, me just dying for any kind of update at all. While others are only just now making their presence known. If Wikipedia s