The war to bring down Peloton:
a new workout mode that automatically adjusts incline and resistance based on a target heart rate.
Those closely-held patents are at the heart of iFIT’s fight against Peloton: iFIT first sued Peloton in 2016 for patent infringement over its signature bike, claiming Foley had copied the technology from iFIT. While that case wasin 2017, the legal battles heated up again when Peloton sued iFIT in May last year, and there are now at least three ongoing lawsuits between the two companies.S
cott Watterson was raised in a Mormon family in the small college town of Logan, Utah. He didn’t stray too far from home until 1977, when he was age 22. That’s when he took a break from his studies at Utah State to travel to Taipei for a two-year mission to spread the Mormon faith. It was also the same year he and his classmate Gary Stevenson started a company called Weslo—with the help of a $2,000 loan from Watterson’s father—that sold imported furniture from Asia.
Watterson and Stevenson sold most of the company to Weider Health and Fitness for an undisclosed amount in 1989, with the two cofounders still minority partners and Watterson CEO. Five years later, private equity firm Bain Capital—then led by Mitt Romney—a majority stake in Weslo from Weider in a $370 million leveraged buyout. Under Bain’s stewardship, the firm quickly snapped up fitness brands such as NordicTrack in 1999 and Freemotion in 2000.
In 2010, Watterson moved aggressively to protect the company’s prized trove of patents. Then known as ICON Health & Fitness, the firm filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ellipticals sold by a smaller competitor, Octane. The lawsuit made it all the way to the Supreme Court in 2014 and the justices unanimously
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