Company: FSLY
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001517413-25-000218
Chunk: 542

Company: Fastly, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 542
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 and business alliances. No assurance can be given that these agreements will be effective in controlling access to and distribution of our products, intellectual property, 

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and proprietary information. Further, these agreements do not prevent our competitors or partners from independently developing technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our platform.

In order to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights, we may be required to spend significant resources. Litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property rights and to protect our trade secrets and other confidential information. Intellectual property litigation could be costly, time consuming, and distracting to management and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property. Furthermore, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims, and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights. Our inability to protect our intellectual property and proprietary technology against unauthorized copying or use, as well as any costly litigation or diversion of our management’s attention and resources, could, among other things, delay further sales or the implementation of our platform, impair the functionality of our platform, delay introductions of new products, result in our substituting inferior or more costly technologies into our products, or injure our reputation. We will not be able to protect our intellectual property if we are unable to enforce our rights or if we do not detect unauthorized use of our intellectual property. Moreover, policing unauthorized use of our technologies, trade secrets, and intellectual property may be difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, particularly in jurisdictions outside of the United States where the laws may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States and where mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be weak or inadequate. If we fail to meaningfully protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, our business and competitive advantage may be harmed.

We may in the future be subject to legal proceedings and litigation relating to intellectual property disputes, which are costly and may subject us to significant liability and increased costs of doing business. Our business may suffer if it is alleged or determined that our technology infringes the intellectual property rights of others.

Our industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights. From time to time, we may be required to defend against litigation claims by other companies based on allegations of infringement or other violations of their intellectual property rights. Many of these companies have the capability to dedicate substantially greater resources than us to enforce their intellectual property rights and to defend claims that may be brought against them