diff --git a/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/Gson.java b/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/Gson.java
index 80aa12888e..1bbfd3189e 100644
--- a/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/Gson.java
+++ b/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/Gson.java
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ public Gson() {
 
     // built-in type adapters that cannot be overridden
     factories.add(TypeAdapters.JSON_ELEMENT_FACTORY);
-    factories.add(ObjectTypeAdapter.getFactory(objectToNumberStrategy));
+    factories.add(ObjectTypeAdapter.getFactory(objectToNumberStrategy, true));
 
     // the excluder must precede all adapters that handle user-defined types
     factories.add(excluder);
@@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ public Gson() {
     // users' type adapters
     factories.addAll(factoriesToBeAdded);
 
+    factories.add(ObjectTypeAdapter.getFactory(objectToNumberStrategy, false));
+
     // type adapters for basic platform types
     factories.add(TypeAdapters.STRING_FACTORY);
     factories.add(TypeAdapters.INTEGER_FACTORY);
diff --git a/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/internal/bind/ObjectTypeAdapter.java b/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/internal/bind/ObjectTypeAdapter.java
index 20d1606291..541ce8c683 100644
--- a/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/internal/bind/ObjectTypeAdapter.java
+++ b/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/internal/bind/ObjectTypeAdapter.java
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonToken;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable;
 import java.util.ArrayDeque;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Deque;
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@
  */
 public final class ObjectTypeAdapter extends TypeAdapter<Object> {
   /** Gson default factory using {@link ToNumberPolicy#DOUBLE}. */
-  private static final TypeAdapterFactory DOUBLE_FACTORY = newFactory(ToNumberPolicy.DOUBLE);
+  private static final TypeAdapterFactory DOUBLE_FACTORY = newFactory(ToNumberPolicy.DOUBLE, true);
 
   private final Gson gson;
   private final ToNumberStrategy toNumberStrategy;
@@ -49,24 +51,41 @@ private ObjectTypeAdapter(Gson gson, ToNumberStrategy toNumberStrategy) {
     this.toNumberStrategy = toNumberStrategy;
   }
 
-  private static TypeAdapterFactory newFactory(final ToNumberStrategy toNumberStrategy) {
+  private static TypeAdapterFactory newFactory(
+      final ToNumberStrategy toNumberStrategy, final boolean skipTypeVariable) {
     return new TypeAdapterFactory() {
       @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
       @Override
       public <T> TypeAdapter<T> create(Gson gson, TypeToken<T> type) {
-        if (type.getRawType() == Object.class) {
+        if (type.getRawType() == Object.class
+            && (!skipTypeVariable || !isTypeVariableWithBound(type.getType()))) {
           return (TypeAdapter<T>) new ObjectTypeAdapter(gson, toNumberStrategy);
         }
         return null;
       }
+
+      private boolean isTypeVariableWithBound(Type type) {
+        if (type instanceof TypeVariable<?>) {
+          TypeVariable<?> tv = (TypeVariable<?>) type;
+          Type bound = tv.getBounds()[0];
+          return bound != Object.class && bound instanceof Class<?>;
+        } else {
+          return false;
+        }
+      }
     };
   }
 
   public static TypeAdapterFactory getFactory(ToNumberStrategy toNumberStrategy) {
+    return getFactory(toNumberStrategy, false);
+  }
+
+  public static TypeAdapterFactory getFactory(
+      ToNumberStrategy toNumberStrategy, boolean skipTypeVariable) {
     if (toNumberStrategy == ToNumberPolicy.DOUBLE) {
       return DOUBLE_FACTORY;
     } else {
-      return newFactory(toNumberStrategy);
+      return newFactory(toNumberStrategy, skipTypeVariable);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/gson/src/test/java/com/google/gson/functional/InferenceFromTypeVariableTest.java b/gson/src/test/java/com/google/gson/functional/InferenceFromTypeVariableTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..490da5a214
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gson/src/test/java/com/google/gson/functional/InferenceFromTypeVariableTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package com.google.gson.functional;
+
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
+import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
+import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
+import com.google.gson.TypeAdapterFactory;
+import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Test deserialization of generic wrapper with type bound.
+ *
+ * @author sevcenko
+ */
+public class InferenceFromTypeVariableTest {
+  private Gson gson;
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() throws Exception {
+    gson = new GsonBuilder().registerTypeAdapterFactory(new ResolveGenericBoundFactory()).create();
+  }
+
+  public static class Foo {
+    private final String text;
+
+    public Foo(String text) {
+      this.text = text;
+    }
+
+    public String getText() {
+      return text;
+    }
+  }
+
+  public static class BarDynamic<T extends Foo> {
+    private final T foo;
+
+    public BarDynamic(T foo) {
+      this.foo = foo;
+    }
+
+    public T getFoo() {
+      return foo;
+    }
+  }
+
+  static class ResolveGenericBoundFactory implements TypeAdapterFactory {
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    @Override
+    public <T> TypeAdapter<T> create(Gson gson, TypeToken<T> type) {
+      if (type.getType() instanceof TypeVariable<?>) {
+        TypeVariable<?> tv = (TypeVariable<?>) type.getType();
+        Type[] bounds = tv.getBounds();
+        if (bounds.length == 1 && bounds[0] != Object.class) {
+          Type bound = bounds[0];
+          return (TypeAdapter<T>) gson.getAdapter(TypeToken.get(bound));
+        }
+      }
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSubClassSerialization() {
+    BarDynamic<Foo> bar = new BarDynamic<>(new Foo("foo!"));
+    assertThat(gson.toJson(bar)).isEqualTo("{\"foo\":{\"text\":\"foo!\"}}");
+    // without #2563 fix, this would deserialize foo as Object and fails to assign it to foo field
+    BarDynamic<?> deserialized = gson.fromJson(gson.toJson(bar), BarDynamic.class);
+    assertThat(deserialized.getFoo().getText()).isEqualTo("foo!");
+  }
+}