Company: TCOM
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001193125-25-078429
Chunk: 35

Company: Trip.com Group Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 35
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 operate and, in turn, adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. 
 We may not be able to prevent others from using our intellectual property, which may harm our business and expose us to litigation. 
 We regard our domain names, trade names, trademarks, patents, proprietary know-how, and similar intellectual properties as critical to our success. We try to protect our intellectual property rights by relying on intellectual property protection laws, confidentiality laws, and confidentiality contracts. However, the provisions of such laws and contracts may not provide us with sufficient protection, and legal proceedings to protect our intellectual properties from infringement could be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. In addition, as our business operations further evolve globally, we may not be able to enforce our intellectual property rights throughout the world, which may in turn adversely impact our international operations and business. We may encounter significant problems in protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights in certain foreign jurisdictions. The legal systems of certain countries do not favor the enforcement of intellectual property protection, which could make it difficult for us to stop the infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights. Proceedings to enforce our proprietary rights in foreign jurisdictions could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business. 
 The steps we have taken may be inadequate to prevent the misappropriation of our proprietary technology. Any misappropriation could have a negative effect on our business and operating results. Furthermore, we may need to go to court to enforce our intellectual property rights. Litigation relating to our intellectual property might result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management attention. 
 
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 We rely on services from third parties to certain extent to carry out our business and to deliver our products to users, and if there is any interruption or deterioration in the quality of these services, our users may not continue using our services. 
 We partially rely on third-party computer systems to host our websites, as well as third-party licenses for some of the software underlying our technology platform. In addition, we rely on third-party transportation ticketing agencies to issue transportation tickets and travel insurance products, confirmations and deliveries in various cities around the world. We also rely on third-party local operators to deliver on-site services to our packaged-tour and in-destination activity users and other services, such as car services. 
 Any interruption in our ability to obtain the products or services of these or other third parties or deterioration in their performance, such as server errors or interruptions, or dishonest business conduct, could impair the timing and quality of