Company: AIRJW
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001013762-25-002263
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Company: AirJoule Technologies Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 be prior art of which we are not aware or
there may be other patents existing in the patent landscape that affect our freedom to operate. Our business and financial prospects may
be harmed to the extent we are required to spend significant resources prosecuting, protecting or enforcing our patents, designing around
patents held by others or licensing patents or other proprietary rights from third parties. Additionally, pending applications may not
be issued or may be issued with claims significantly narrower than we currently seek. Similarly, patents for which claims have been allowed
may be successfully challenged and invalidated. Unless and until our pending applications issue, their protective scope is impossible
to determine and, even after issuance, their protective scope may be limited. Also, litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual
property rights or determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Such litigation may result in our intellectual
property rights being challenged, limited in scope or declared invalid or unenforceable. We cannot be certain that the outcome of any
litigation will be in our favor, and an adverse determination in any such litigation could impair our intellectual property rights and
may harm our business, prospects and reputation.

In addition, our success depends in large part on our proprietary information,
including certain processes, formulations and other know-how developed over years of research and development. We rely heavily on trade
secrets, especially in cases where we believe patents or other forms of registered intellectual property protection may not be appropriate
or obtainable. However, trade secrets are difficult to protect. We employ various methods to protect such intellectual property, such
as entering into confidentiality agreements with certain third parties and our employees, and controlling access to, and distribution
of, our proprietary information. We cannot guarantee that we have entered into such agreements with each party that may have or has had
access to our trade secrets or proprietary technology and processes. We cannot assure you that these agreements will provide effective
or meaningful protection against the unauthorized use, misappropriation, or disclosure of our trade secrets, know-how, or other proprietary
information. Enforcing a claim that a party disclosed proprietary information in an unauthorized manner or misappropriated a trade secret
is difficult, expensive and time-consuming, and the outcome is unpredictable. In addition, some courts are less willing or unwilling to
protect trade secrets, and agreement terms that address non-competition are difficult to enforce in many jurisdictions and might not be
enforceable in certain cases. Furthermore, competitors may independently develop products or technologies that are substantially equivalent
or