Company: PRMB
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0002042694-25-000003
Chunk: 26

Company: Primo Brands Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 26
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 third parties who may have access to our intellectual property and confidential information. We also rely on common law and statutory protections afforded to trademarks, trade secrets, and proprietary “know-how.” In addition, we vigorously pursue available legal remedies against any  third party that infringes on our intellectual property rights. Failure to protect our intellectual property rights may result in the loss of our brand recognition, valuable technologies or other intellectual property related to our products and brands. We may also have to compensate third parties if we are found to infringe their intellectual property rights.

Notwithstanding our efforts, we may not be successful in protecting our intellectual property for a number of reasons, including:

•our competitors may independently develop intellectual property that is similar to, or better than, ours;

•employees, contractors or other third parties may breach their confidentiality obligations and the cost of enforcing their obligations may be prohibitive, or those agreements may prove to be unenforceable or provide more limited protection than anticipated;

•adequate remedies may not be available in the event of an unauthorized disclosure of our trade secrets or know-how;

•foreign intellectual property laws may not adequately protect our intellectual property rights;

•our intellectual property rights may be successfully challenged, invalidated, or circumvented.

Further, we cannot provide assurance that any pending patent or trademark applications filed by us will result in an issued patent or trademark, or, if patents are issued to us, that those patents will provide meaningful protection against competitors or competitive technologies. If we are unable to protect our intellectual property, our competitive position would weaken and we could face significant expense to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights.

Occasionally, third parties may assert that we are, or may be, infringing, violating or misappropriating their intellectual property rights. We intend to defend against any such claims. In some cases we may need to negotiate licenses from such third parties to resolve a dispute, which may not be available at a reasonable cost, if at all. Intellectual property cases are uncertain and involve complex legal and factual questions. If we become involved in this type of litigation, it could consume significant resources and divert our attention from business operations. In the event our trademarks, service marks, or trade names are successfully challenged, we could be forced to rebrand our goods and services, which could result in loss of brand recognition, and any goodwill associated with such trademark, service mark, or trade name and could require us to devote substantial resources to advertising and marketing new brands that, ultimately, may not be successful. If we are found to infringe,