Company: WW
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-029511
Chunk: 79

Company: WW INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 79
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 with many other companies in the commercial weight management industry, although we believe that in certain cases their businesses are not comparable to ours. For example, we believe our prominence as one of the most clinically-studied commercial weight management programs differentiates us from many of our competitors. In conjunction with our flexible, healthy food plan and emphasis on behavior change education, we believe that the power of our communities -- via our online social network, Connect, and workshops -- increases accountability and provides our members with inspiration, human connection, and support, which motivates them and enables them to build healthier and more fulfilling food, activity and lifestyle habits. Additionally, we believe we are differentiated by offering a continuum of solutions inclusive of our behavior change programs, community support through our workshops, and in the United States, our telehealth platform providing members who medically qualify access to clinicians who can prescribe weight management medications when clinically appropriate.

Our Clinical business is part of the emerging market at the confluence of healthcare and technology, which is increasingly competitive, subject to rapid change, and significantly affected by new product and technological introductions, the evolving regulatory landscape, and other market activities of industry participants. The increased popularity and acceptance and rapid adoption of medication as a weight loss tool has introduced new competitors in the weight management and health and wellness market and increased competition from certain of our existing competitors. We compete directly not only with telehealth providers but also traditional healthcare providers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, and other technology companies entering into the weight management and health and wellness industry. Conversely, increased attention by consumers and the media to recent developments, innovations, and approvals of chronic weight management drug therapies, the increase in compounded drug formulations, and the perception of their safety, effectiveness and ease of use, may also delay or prevent consumer engagement in our Behavioral businesses.

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Trademarks, Patents and Other Proprietary Rights

We own numerous domestic and international trademarks, patents, domain names and other proprietary rights that are valuable assets and are important to our business. Depending upon the jurisdiction, trademarks are valid as long as they are used in the regular course of trade and/or their registrations are properly maintained. Patent protection extends for varying periods according to the date of patent filing or grant and the legal term of patents in the jurisdiction in which the patent is granted. The actual protection afforded by a patent may vary from country to country depending upon the type of patent, the scope of its coverage and the availability of legal remedies in the country. We believe the protection of our trademarks, copyrights, patents, domain names, trade