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L4 L5 paddle triggers - yeah, at 5:35 Linus mentions "they might change that" because Valve screwed badly with the patent and lost $4mil lawsuit (to Corsair)

https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/3/22264213/valve-steam-contro...

Winner of the lawsuit just announced they will fight for $6.5mil in attorney fees too https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/386244/Winner_in_Steam_C...

putting buttons where your fingers rest doesn't seem like a novel idea to me.

Patentable inventions don’t have to be complicated, they only have to be dressed up in complicated language for the patent application.

The problem was Valve didnt even bother trying to invalidate the patent, they simply ignored the owner when they reached out.

So someone just needs to file 100,000 patent claims against me, and since I can't respond to all of them, they win by default?

I feel like, if I wasn't busy with about 5 other projects I would start submitting patents for programmable buttons for all kinds of devices that you hold.

Lawsuit wasnt lost by default. Lawsuit was lost because infringement was willful and premeditated. Patent owner contacted Valve as soon as product was on the market. If you are a $10-20 billion corporation and someone contacts your legal department asking for a meeting concerning patent dispute then yes, you better respond instead of wishing really hard they go away.

Still sounds like guilty until proven innocent to me. If you do nothing, "oh you didn't try to invalidate it". Valve probably receives tons of "patent infringement" spam, and if they accidentally mis-file a serious patent lawsuit (which would be worth trying to invalidate) with the "not even worth responding to" patent notices, then they deserve to lose? Is that right?

They had a second chance in court, and blew that one too.

I preordered one based on this. I would like to emulate the older consoles and games I already own and retire them from under the TV. I was initially skeptical but this is convincing.

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