This was initially a handshake agreement between two people who both believe in helping people cope with chronic pain, said Michael Wasilisin, PhD, who is known on social media. Initially, Waseilisin told Waseilisin to meet and talk with Therabody founder and chiropractic Jason Wersland. wealth.
“I trust him because we are friends,” Wasilisin said. “The initial agreement was that when they succeeded, they would buy me a boat and the bigger the boat, the more I helped them sell.”
According to Wasilisin, he insisted on the end of the deal Instagram,,,,, Youtubetiktok and Facebook. Wasilisin is accused of improperly turning his name off in a lawsuit filed in California on Tuesday thumb and wedge Tips attached to percussion equipment. He is seeking correction patent Listed him as the sole inventor, compensatory and punitive damages, and accounting for all sold therapeutic agency products sold with timber proprietin. David Hecht, the lawyer for mustard protein, estimates that the case could be millions.
Therabody’s general counsel Jonathan Feldman told in a statement wealth Claims in litigation are unfounded.
“The Therapy Bureau has an impressive history of innovation and collaboration, and we place great emphasis on intellectual property rights,” Feldman said. “We intend to strongly defend ourselves against these allegations and look forward to sharing the facts through proper legal process.”
Treatment Bureau Manufacture and sell a variety of fitness recovery and other equipment, including its flagship Theragun. The high-end massager retails for $650 and includes a variety of tips for different areas of the body as well as a variety of muscle soreness and pain.
“At a very high level, these attachments are attributed to these revenues, and we are looking for the appropriate parts because these are Dr. Mike’s designs.”
Therabody was founded by Wersland, which was created by Dr. Jason. public Jetta, fly over the car. Wersland left the accident without a fracture, but he suffered severe soft tissue injuries. To cope with the pain, he created the original Theragun using Makita puzzles and dish towels. Since then, the company has grown into a health and wellness empire and raised hundreds of millions Private investors for years.
According to Wasilisin’s lawsuit, he contacted Worthland in August 2017 and the two met in Los Angeles. At that meeting, Cili protease allegedly showed Woslan his thumb and wedge tip design, prototype, drawings and other documents. He claimed he agreed that Therabody could patent his designs, but only if he was listed as a patent inventor and paid for his work. Two months later, he shipped his thumb and wedge attachment to Therabody’s office in California.
Wasilisin claimed that five months after the Los Angeles meeting, Therabody filed two patents for thumb and wedge massage tips, nor did he not notify him or list his name. Instead, Worthland’s name was patented along with two other people. Wasilisin claims that the three people have nothing to do with his design and development.
Allegedly, three years after the February 2018 patent application document, allegedly texted Wasilisin three years after the February 2018 patent application application: “I will sign something for you (sic) all my ideas. I will not accept your ideas without you.
But until two years later, to his shock, mustardine looked up and raised the patent and saw that his name was not listed. He immediately texted Worthland.
“Man, my heart just sank on the floor when I saw this. What happened?” according to the lawsuit, he wrote.
“I don’t know,” the lawsuit said. “I’ll find out. I’ll fix it.”
The lawsuit states that Worthland and the other two signed the inventor’s oath. The US Patent and Trademark Office requires Oath or statement Confirm that the inventor or joint inventor believes that they have created or co-created the patented content. He said a treatment agency executive reached out to Wasilisin for about a patent, but another year passed before Therabody offered to pay for mustardine for the sale of thumb attachments.
“I’ve been promoting Theragun for free on all channels and never received a penny from the membership committee, they’ve got hundreds of millions of views, and I do it because I believe in the product and the Jason I trust.” wealth. “It’s about lost friendship and lack of trust.”
Wasilisin believes that ultimately, his participation will be formalized and he will make meaningful compensation for his contribution. But he eventually concluded that he would never get a fair salary without fighting.
Wasilisin said Therabody offered him what he called a “false contract.” He ran the text through Grok AI, and the analysis told him not to sign in any way. He called Wersland and his former friend’s response completely destroyed him. He said Worthlan allegedly told him: “Why can’t you give up on this?”
“These words are like me, and he knows they’re trying to get me out,” Wasilisin said. “This is someone I trust as a friend, and I love this guy–still want to love him and it’s sad.”
Wasilisin said he wanted to see the Treatment Bureau and his former friend Wersland, but he also wanted to recognize his work.
“This is a rare situation where I think the treatment agency might question the rare situation where they are using his stuff,” Hecht said.
