Hyperice IP Subco, LLC

Hyperice IP Subco, LLC is an intellectual property holding subsidiary of Hyperice, Inc., an American health technology company. Founded in 2010 by Anthony Katz, Hyperice, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Irvine, California. The parent company reportedly has between 100 and 200 employees and has surpassed $200 million in annual revenue, with a valuation that reached $850 million in 2024.

Hyperice, Inc. designs and manufactures a range of body recovery and movement enhancement products. Its major product lines include percussion massage devices (e.g., Hypervolt), dynamic air compression systems (e.g., Normatec, Hyperboot Nike x Hyperice), vibration rollers (e.g., Vyper, Hypersphere), heat therapy devices (e.g., Venom), and contrast therapy devices (e.g., Hyperice X). These products leverage percussion, vibration, dynamic air compression, and thermal technologies, catering to professional athletes, sports teams, and general consumers for warm-up, muscle soreness reduction, and accelerated recovery. The company has significant partnerships with major sports leagues like the NBA, NFL, and MLB, and brands such as Nike and WHOOP.

Hyperice IP Subco, LLC functions as the patent enforcement arm for its parent company, structured to manage and assert its intellectual property assets. In terms of patent litigation, the company exhibits a posture of an operating entity that both defends its patents and offensively asserts them. Hyperice IP Subco, LLC has been named as a defendant in six tracked cases, including actions brought by other operating companies like Sichuan Qianli-Beoka Medical Technology Inc. and MerchSource, LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceeding initiated by Therabody Inc. Conversely, it has appeared as a plaintiff in one tracked case, Hyper Ice, Inc. et al. v. JOICOM CORPORATION d/b/a RENPHO, also in the Central District of California.

Notable cases include a PTAB challenge by Therabody Inc. against Hyperice IP Subco LLC concerning a patent, and multiple defensive actions in federal court. While primarily a defendant, Hyperice IP Subco, LLC has also initiated patent infringement actions, some of which were voluntarily dismissed without prejudice, such as against Therabody, Inc. and Cotsoco, asserting patents related to percussive massage device technology (e.g., U.S. Patent No. 11,857,482 B1). The patents assigned to Hyperice IP Subco, LLC cover various recovery technologies, including design patents for temperature therapy and percussive massage devices.