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FAST IP, LLC

FAST IP, LLC's patent strategy is overwhelmingly concentrated in Footwear, representing 87.6% of its portfolio, yet this core area has seen a significant decline in recent filings, with a 32.3% drop in 2025 and a further 76.2% decrease so far in 2026, suggesting a potential shift away from its primary focus despite minor, fluctuating activity in Manipulators & Robotics and Physical Therapy Apparatus.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

Product themes

Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

89 US filings (since 2023) · 3 categories · 5 themes

Modular Footwear Design

Footwear systems designed with interchangeable or reconfigurable components, such as soles, uppers, or footbeds, to allow for customization, repair, or adaptation to different uses.

Footwear
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78since 2023
-32.3%YoY
Adaptive Closure Systems

Novel mechanisms for securing footwear to the foot, moving beyond traditional laces to include reel-based cables, vacuum-actuated bladders, or integrated frames for enhanced fit and ease of use.

Footwear
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69since 2023
-20.8%YoY
Performance Sole Design

Engineering of footwear sole components, including midsoles, outsoles, and integrated plates or shanks, to optimize cushioning, stability, energy return, and biomechanical support for specific activities.

Footwear
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43since 2023
-27.8%YoY
Knitted Uppers & Advanced Materials

Utilization of knitted components, often with multi-layer structures or integrated thermoplastic yarns, and other advanced materials like specialized foams or structural color elements, for footwear uppers and other components.

Footwear
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19since 2023
-50.0%YoY
Smart Footwear Sensors

Integration of electronic sensors and feedback mechanisms into footwear for monitoring physiological parameters, providing navigation assistance, or detecting health conditions.

Footwear
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16since 2023
-75.0%YoY

Patents

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US 10306947 B2GRANTED
A43B3/24

Rapid-entry footwear with rebounding fit system

Filed:2017-08-30Pub:2019-06-04
Applicant:FAST IP, LLC

A rapid-entry and rebounding fit shoe having one or both of a rapid-entry heel element and a rapid-entry tongue element and both snap back for fit. The rapid-entry shoe directs a user's foot into or otherwise accommodates a user's foot with respect to, a shoe opening, and thereafter secures a rear portion of rapid-entry shoe about a user's heel as well as forefoot.

US 20180206588 A1APPLICATION
A43B3/24

RAPID-ENTRY FOOTWEAR WITH REBOUNDING FIT SYSTEM

Filed:2018-03-23Pub:2018-07-26
Applicant:FAST IP, LLC

A rapid-entry and rebounding fit shoe having one or both of a rapid-entry heel element and a rapid-entry tongue element and both snap back for fit. The rapid-entry shoe directs a user's foot into or otherwise accommodates a user's foot with respect to, a shoe opening, and thereafter secures a rear portion of rapid-entry shoe about a user's heel as well as forefoot.

US 9877542 B2GRANTED
A43B11/00

Rapid-entry shoe

Filed:2010-11-12Pub:2018-01-30
Applicant:Michael Pratt

A rapid-entry shoe allows the shoe to be rapidly entered and readied for wearing by the user. The shoe may be any of a wide variety of shoe types, including shoes of a wide variety of styles and functions. The rapid entry features of the shoes utilize various movable elements that are attached to a sole portion or other portion of the shoe and allow movement of a portion of the shoe under pressure to allow rapid entry of the user's foot into the shoe. The moveable elements may include flexible elements, elements having constructed to have a memory of a native position, magnetic elements, and/or elastic elements.

US 20170360151 A1APPLICATION
A43B11/00

RAPID-ENTRY SHOE

Filed:2017-08-31Pub:2017-12-21
Applicant:FAST IP, LLC

A rapid-entry shoe allows the shoe to be rapidly entered and readied for wearing by the user. The shoe may be any of a wide variety of shoe types, including shoes of a wide variety of styles and functions. The rapid entry features of the shoes utilize various movable elements that are attached to a sole portion or other portion of the shoe and allow movement of a portion of the shoe under pressure to allow rapid entry of the user's foot into the shoe. The moveable elements may include flexible elements, elements having constructed to have a memory of a native position, magnetic elements, and/or elastic elements.

US 20170360143 A1APPLICATION
A43B3/24

RAPID-ENTRY FOOTWEAR WITH REBOUNDING FIT SYSTEM

Filed:2017-08-30Pub:2017-12-21
Applicant:FAST IP, LLC

A rapid-entry and rebounding fit shoe having one or both of a rapid-entry heel element and a rapid-entry tongue element and both snap back for fit. The rapid-entry shoe directs a user's foot into or otherwise accommodates a user's foot with respect to, a shoe opening, and thereafter secures a rear portion of rapid-entry shoe about a user's heel as well as forefoot.

US 9820527 B2GRANTED
A43B1/10

Rapid-entry footwear with rebounding fit system

Filed:2017-04-21Pub:2017-11-21
Applicant:FAST IP, LLC

A rapid-entry and rebounding fit shoe having one or both of a rapid-entry heel element and a rapid-entry tongue element and both snap back for fit. The rapid-entry shoe directs a user's foot into or otherwise accommodates a user's foot with respect to, a shoe opening, and thereafter secures a rear portion of rapid-entry shoe about a user's heel as well as forefoot.

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