The complaint
JiMi IP, LLC and Ropes Courses, Inc. d/b/a RCI Adventure Products v. WA7 Volli, LLC d/b/a Summit Adventure Park Marysville, No. 2:26-cv-03272 (W.D. Wash.), is a fifteen-page complaint for patent infringement filed September 11, 2026, ECF No. 1, with a jury demand. JiMi alleges it owns the patents by recorded assignment and that RCI is its exclusive licensee. The complaint alleges, on information and belief, that WA7 Volli is a Washington limited liability company formed July 10, 2026 that now operates, as successor operator, an amusement facility in Marysville, Washington that was previously run under another trade name.
What the patents cover
U.S. Patent 8,066,578 is titled Challenge Course and issued November 29, 2011. The complaint describes claim 1 as a challenge course with a frame having a track that receives a moveable member and has an intersection, a horizontally oriented platform fixed to the frame, an obstacle secured to the frame and separated by the platform, and a safety cable extending from the moveable member so a user can be connected to it.
U.S. Patents 10,478,737 (issued November 19, 2019) and 11,376,513 (issued July 5, 2022) are both titled Zip Track and System. The complaint relies on claim 10 of the '737 patent, which it describes as a zip track between two challenge-course structures connected at each end to a puck track, with a wheel support lower than the puck support and a moveable body with a puck and rotating member that attaches to a user's safety-harness lanyard, and on claim 1 of the '513 patent, which it describes as a puck track, a descending zip track, and a moveable body, with the puck track overlapping at least part of the zip track.
What the lawsuit is about
Plaintiffs allege that WA7 Volli operates and sells access to the facility's challenge course, including its zip tracks, obstacles, platforms, moveable members, lanyards, and safety cables, and that the system meets at least the claims identified above, citing photographs and videos posted on Facebook. They allege that RCI sent the facility's operator a cease-and-desist letter on November 4, 2025, that the accused conduct continued, and that the infringement is willful. The three counts allege direct infringement under 35 U.S.C. 271(a), and the prayer asks for preliminary and permanent injunctions, damages of no less than a reasonable royalty, enhanced damages, an accounting, and attorneys' fees.
What to watch next
WA7 Volli appeared through counsel on October 13, 2026. The court extended its time to answer on October 14 (ECF No. 12) and again on October 30, 2026, and the case was reassigned on October 15, 2026 (ECF No. 14). Watch for WA7 Volli's answer or Rule 12 motion.