Valve, the parent company of Steam, has just been sued over using the rumble feature in the Steam deck. Valve gets sued by a company that claims that they used the “Rumble Feature” which was a patent design.
Immersion Cooperation has developed, purchased, or acquired so many models and patents regarding the Rumble Technology, they have now sued Valve as Steam Deck allegedly uses their Rumble patent.
Valve
The parent company of Steam, which is arguably the biggest online game store and the staple of gaming. They also dabble here and there in hardware, first, they tried and failed with the Steam Controller, but then the Steam Deck is proving to be a great success.
Steam Deck
It is a handheld console by Valve. The console is powerful enough to run many AAA games which are available in the Steam store. The console has also been crushing at sales. The Steam Deck once again transcended the Steam Weekly Top Sellers this week. While exact sales are unknown, it’s safe to say the handheld has sold well over a million units.
Immersion Sues Valve
The company is blaming Valve for violating its patents with the Steam Deck handheld, the Valve Index VR platform, its SteamVR software, and Half-Life: Alyx among other titles.
Immersion asks for damages, and royalties, and warns Valve while filing their complaint on Monday.
“From deploying, operating, maintaining, testing, and using the Accused Handheld Instrumentalities and Accused VR Instrumentalities”.
Warning To Valve
History Of Immersion Lawsuits
Valve is not the only company to get hit by a lawsuit by Immersion. Previously, companies like Sony, Microsoft, Google, Motorolla, Fitbit, and even Apple have all caught a case one way or another. Basically, if it has a motor, or it vibrates, Immersion is ready to drop a case.
All these above-mentioned companies settled their lawsuits by either having licenses with Immersion Tech or paying huge amounts.
Valve’s Response
Valve has still given no comments regarding Valve getting sued.
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