Company: ZM
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001585521-25-000141
Chunk: 141

Company: Zoom Communications, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 4
Chunk 141
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 Third parties may knowingly or unknowingly infringe our intellectual property or proprietary rights; third parties may challenge our intellectual property or proprietary rights; our pending and future patent, trademark, and copyright applications may not be approved; and we may not be able to prevent infringement without incurring substantial expense. We have also devoted substantial resources to the development of our proprietary technologies and related processes. In order to protect our proprietary technologies and processes, we rely in part on trade secret laws and confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants, and third parties. These agreements may not effectively prevent disclosure of confidential information and may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. In addition, others may develop similar technologies or processes, or independently discover our trade secrets, in which case we would not be able to assert our trade secret rights. Further, the laws of certain foreign countries do not provide the same level of intellectual property protection of corporate proprietary information and assets such as rights to patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how, and records, as the laws of the United States. For instance, the legal systems of certain countries, particularly certain developing countries, do not favor the enforcement of patents and other intellectual property protection. As a result, we may encounter significant problems in protecting and defending our intellectual property or proprietary rights abroad. Additionally, we may also be exposed to material risks of theft or unauthorized reverse engineering of our proprietary information and other intellectual property, including technical data, manufacturing processes, data sets, or other sensitive information. Our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights in such foreign countries may be inadequate to obtain a significant commercial advantage from the intellectual property that we develop, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Costly and time-consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce and determine the scope of our proprietary rights. If the protection of our proprietary rights is inadequate to prevent use or appropriation by third 

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parties, the value of our platform, brand, and other intangible assets may be diminished, and competitors may be able to more effectively replicate our platform and its features. Any of these events would harm our business.

Our use of third-party open source software could negatively affect our ability to offer and sell subscriptions to our platform and subject us to possible litigation.

We have incorporated, and may in the future incorporate, third-party open source software (including our open source AI models) in our technologies. Open source software is generally licensed by its authors or other third parties under open source licenses. From