iFIT Health & Fitness, Inc.

iFIT Health & Fitness, Inc. is a privately held global health and fitness technology company headquartered in Logan, Utah. Founded in 1977 as Weslo, Inc. and later known as ICON Health & Fitness, the company is now a subsidiary of IHF Holdings Inc. It is backed by private equity firms including L Catterton and Pamplona Capital Management. While financials are not public, a 2021 SEC filing noted the company had approximately 6.4 million members and sold products with a Gross Merchandise Value of $2.8 billion in fiscal year 2021. The company has around 2,500 employees.

iFIT is an operating company that manufactures and sells connected fitness equipment integrated with its proprietary subscription-based streaming platform. The company's primary hardware brands are NordicTrack, ProForm, and Freemotion, which include product lines such as treadmills, elliptical machines, stationary bikes, and rowers. Its core offering is the iFIT software platform, which provides thousands of on-demand and live-streamed workouts. A key feature of the platform is its ability to interactively control the user's equipment, automatically adjusting speed, incline, and resistance to sync with the trainer-led workouts.

The company's patent litigation posture, based on tracked cases, is that of an operating company defending against patent assertions. It has been a defendant in one tracked case and has not appeared as a plaintiff. This case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, a frequent venue for patent disputes.

The notable tracked case is DISH Technologies, LLC et al. v. iFIT Health & Fitness, Inc., filed in September 2023. The suit was part of a broader dispute where DISH accused iFIT of infringing patents related to adaptive bitrate streaming technology in its fitness equipment. The conflict also included an investigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), which resulted in an import ban against certain iFIT products. The district court case was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice in March 2024, after the parties reached a settlement.