Nike Asks to Keep Sealed Information About Its Training Club App

Nike, a nonparty to the FTC’s lawsuit to block Meta’s Within Unlimited buy, wants to keep under seal portions of the FTC and Meta separate Dec. 23 findings of fact documents (see 2212270040) because they contain nonpublic information that “could be used to injure Nike if it were made publicly available,” said the company in a statement Friday (docket 5:22-cv-04325) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. The content in the FTC document that Nike wants to keep redacted pertains to a discussion about how virtual-reality fitness apps differ from other at-home fitness products, including the Nike Training Club app, said the statement. The redacted information in the Meta findings of fact document is part of an overview in which the company depicts Within’s Supernatural VR fitness app as operating in a highly competitive market with many VR and non-VR products, it said. The information that Nike seeks to protect consists of Nike’s “strategic evaluation of its competitors and their commercial activities, which Nike uses to inform its product development analysis for the current and future direction of the Nike Training Club app,” it said.