Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-001965
Chunk: 227

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 227
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 the United States and similar laws in other countries, as well as confidentiality procedures, contractual
commitments, and other legal rights to establish, maintain, and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights. We have an active program of establishing, maintaining, and protecting our intellectual property and proprietary rights,
including our proprietary technology, through the filing of patents, registration of trademarks, and use of contractual measures and other intellectual property rights. We generally enter into agreements with our employees, consultants, contractors,
and other third parties that include confidentiality and nondisclosure provisions in order to limit access to, and disclosure and use of, our confidential information, trade secrets, know-how, and proprietary
technology. Those agreements also often include invention or work product assignment provisions to establish, maintain, and protect our brand and other intellectual property rights. We may also agree to license our intellectual property to third
parties as part of various agreements.

As of December 31, 2024, we have 19 issued patents in the United States and filed 42 nonprovisional patent
applications in the United States, as well as 36 patent applications in foreign jurisdictions, with respect to our technology. We held 20 registered trademarks in the United States, including the Circle name and Circle logo, and also held 328
registered trademarks in foreign jurisdictions. We also had 11 pending trademark applications in the United States, as well as 82 pending trademark applications in foreign jurisdictions. We intend to file additional trademark applications with
respect to our brands.

Intellectual property laws, procedures, and restrictions provide only limited protection and any of our intellectual property rights may
be challenged, invalidated, circumvented, infringed, or misappropriated. Further, intellectual property protection may not be available to us in every country in which our products are available and the laws of certain countries do not protect
proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, and, therefore, in certain jurisdictions, we may be unable to protect our intellectual property. There can be no assurance that our intellectual property rights will be
sufficient to protect against others

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83

offering products or technologies that are substantially similar to ours and that compete
with our business. See “Risk factors—Risks related to intellectual property—Our intellectual property rights are valuable. Any inability to protect and enforce such intellectual property rights could adversely