Company: BSFC
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-015976
Chunk: 481

Company: Blue Star Foods Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 481
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 us to acquire a license on commercially acceptable terms. There may also be technologies
licensed to us and that we rely upon that are subject to infringement or other corresponding allegations or claims by third parties which
may damage our ability to rely on such technologies. In addition, although we endeavor to ensure that companies that work with us possess
appropriate intellectual property rights or licenses, we cannot fully avoid the risks of intellectual property rights infringement created
by suppliers of components used in our products or by companies we work with in cooperative research and development activities. Our
current or potential competitors may obtain patents that will prevent, limit or interfere with our ability to make, use or sell our products.
The defense of intellectual property claims, including patent infringement suits, and related legal and administrative proceedings can
be both costly and time consuming, and may significantly divert the efforts and resources of our technical personnel and management.
These factors could effectively prevent us from pursuing some or all of our business operations and result in our customers or potential
customers deferring, canceling or limiting their purchase or use of our products, which may have a material adverse effect on our business,
financial condition and results of operations.

Our
commercial success will depend in part on our success in obtaining and maintaining issued patents and other intellectual property rights
in the United States and elsewhere. If we do not adequately protect our intellectual property, competitors may be able to use our processes
and erode or negate any competitive advantage we may have, which could harm our business.

We
cannot provide any assurances that any of our patents have, or that any of our pending patent applications that mature into issued patents
will include, claims with a scope sufficient to protect our products, any additional features we develop or any new products. Patents,
if issued, may be challenged, deemed unenforceable, invalidated or circumvented.

Furthermore,
though an issued patent is presumed valid and enforceable, its issuance is not conclusive as to its validity or its enforceability and
it may not provide us with adequate proprietary protection or competitive advantages against competitors with similar products. Competitors
may also be able to design around our patents. Other parties may develop and obtain patent protection for more effective technologies,
designs or methods. We may not be able to prevent the unauthorized disclosure or use of our knowledge or trade secrets by consultants,
suppliers, vendors, former employees and current employees. The laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights
to the same extent as the laws of the United States, and we may encounter significant problems