Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 749

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 749
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 or Document Request” means any request or demand for the production, delivery or disclosure of documents or other evidence, or any request or demand for the production of witnesses for interviews or depositions or other oral or written testimony, by any Regulatory Consent Authority relating to the Transactions or by any third party challenging the Transactions, including any so called “second request” for additional information or

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documentary material or any civil investigative demand made or issued by any Regulatory Consent Authority or any subpoena, interrogatory or deposition.

“Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property rights (including with respect to Technology) created, arising, or protected under applicable Law (or any other similar statutory provision or common law doctrine in the United States or anywhere else in the world), including all:(i)patents and patent applications, (ii) such right in trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, and other indicia of commercial source or origin and general intangibles of a like nature, and all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing (collectively, “Trademarks”), (iii) copyrights and such rights in copyrightable works and works of authorship, and moral rights and technical database and design rights, and rights in data collections, (iv) internet domain names and social media accounts,(v)such rights in trade secrets, confidential or proprietary information, and other non-public or proprietary information, including inventions, invention disclosures, inventor’s notes, designs, plans, specifications, unpatented blueprints, drawings, discoveries and improvements, know-how, manufacturing and production processes and techniques, research and development information, market know-how, customer lists, and proprietary data (collectively, “Trade Secrets”), (vi) such rights in proprietary Software and Technology, and (vii) all issuances, registrations and applications to register (including any reissuances, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, revisions, renewals, extensions, and re-examinations thereof and rights to claim priority to) any of the foregoing (i)–(vi).

“Intended Tax Treatment” has the meaning specified in‎Section 9.04(b).

“Interim Period” has the meaning specified in‎Section 7.01.

“IRS” means the Internal Revenue Service.

“IT Systems” means all computer systems, servers, networks, websites, computer hardware and equipment used to process, store, maintain and operate data, information and functions that are owned, licensed or leased by a Person