Company: PTPI
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001410578-25-000164
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Company: Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 424B4
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#### Risks Related to Petros’ Intellectual Property
If Petros fails to protect its intellectual property rights, its ability to pursue the development of its products would be negatively affected.

Petros’ long-term success largely depends on its ability to market technologically competitive products. Petros relies and expects to continue to rely on a combination of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret and domain name protection laws, as well as confidentiality and license agreements, to protect its intellectual property and proprietary rights. If Petros or its licensors fail to obtain and maintain adequate intellectual property protection, it may not be able to prevent third parties from launching generic or biosimilar versions of its branded products using its proprietary technologies or from marketing products that are very similar or identical to those of Petros. In addition, any patents Petros licenses may not contain claims sufficiently broad to protect it against third parties with similar technologies or products or provide Petros with any competitive advantage, including exclusivity in a particular product area. Petros may be subject to challenges by third parties regarding its or its licensors’ intellectual property, including, among others, claims regarding validity, enforceability, scope and effective term.

The patent positions of life sciences companies, including Petros’ patent position, involve complex legal and factual questions, and, therefore, the issuance, scope, validity and enforceability of any patent claims that Petros may obtain cannot be predicted with certainty. Patents, if issued, may be challenged, deemed unenforceable, invalidated, or circumvented. A third-party may submit prior art, or Petros may become involved in opposition, derivation, reexamination, inter partes review, post-grant review, supplemental examination, or interference proceedings challenging Petros’ patent rights or the patent rights of its licensors or development partners. The costs of defending or enforcing Petros’ proprietary rights in these proceedings can be substantial, and the outcome can be uncertain. An adverse determination in any such submission or proceeding could reduce the scope of, or invalidate, Petros’ patent rights, allow third parties to commercialize Petros’ technology or products and compete directly with Petros, or reduce Petros’ ability to manufacture or commercialize products. Furthermore, if the scope or strength of protection provided by Petros’ patents and patent applications is threatened, it could discourage companies from collaborating with Petros to license, develop or commercialize current or future products. The ownership of Petros’ proprietary rights could also be challenged.

Moreover, the issuance