Company: MIRA
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001183
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Company: MIRA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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impaired or even eliminated.

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Publication
of information related to our product candidates by us, or others may prevent us from obtaining or enforcing patents relating to these
products and product candidates. Furthermore, others may independently develop similar products, may duplicate our products, or may design
around our patent rights. In addition, any of our issued patents may be opposed and/or declared invalid or unenforceable. If we fail
to adequately protect our intellectual property, we may face competition from companies who attempt to create a generic product to compete
with our product candidates. We may also face competition from companies who develop a substantially similar product to one of our product
candidates that is not covered by any of our patents.

If
third parties claim that our intellectual property, products, processes, or anything else used by us infringes upon their intellectual
property, our operating profits could be adversely affected.

There
is a substantial amount of litigation, both within and outside the U.S., involving patent and other intellectual property rights in the
pharmaceutical industry. We may, from time to time, be notified of claims that we are infringing upon patents, trademarks, copyrights,
or other intellectual property rights owned by third parties, and we cannot provide assurances that other companies will not, in the
future, pursue such infringement claims against us, our commercial partners or any third-party proprietary technologies we have licensed.
If we were found to infringe upon a patent or other intellectual property right, or if we failed to obtain or renew a license under a
patent or other intellectual property right from a third party, or if a third party that we were licensing technologies from was found
to infringe upon a patent or other intellectual property rights of another third party, we may be required to pay damages, including
damages of up to three times the damages found or assessed, if the infringement is found to be willful, suspend the manufacture of certain
products or reengineer or rebrand our products, if feasible, or we may be unable to enter certain new product markets. Any such claims
could also be expensive and time consuming to defend and divert management’s attention and resources. Our competitive position
could suffer as a result. In addition, if we have declined or failed to enter into a valid non-disclosure or assignment agreement for
any reason, we may not own the invention or our intellectual property, and our products may not be adequately protected. Thus, we cannot
guarantee that our product candidates, or our