Company: GAUZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-11
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-022437
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Company: Gauzy Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-11
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
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 capabilities have uniquely placed us to
be at the forefront of this technological innovation.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property is an
important aspect of our business and we seek protection for our intellectual property rights as appropriate. To establish and protect
our proprietary rights, we rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark laws, know-how and continuing innovation,
and contractual restrictions such as confidentiality agreements, licenses, and intellectual property assignment agreements. We strive
to protect the proprietary technologies that we believe are important to our business, including seeking and maintaining patent protection
intended to cover our products.

As of March 1, 2025,
our exclusively-owned patent portfolio included 146 issued patents, of which 21 are U. S. patents and 125 are foreign patents.
In addition, as of March 1, 2025, we had a total of 16 pending patent applications, of which 4 are U. S. patent applications and
12 are foreign patent applications. The claims of these owned patents and patent applications are directed toward various aspects of
our family of products, method of their manufacturing and research programs.

We initially submit applications
to the USPTO as provisional patent applications. Then, typically we continue by filing non-provisional patent applications under the
Patent Cooperation Treaty, or the PCT, which is an international patent law treaty that provides a unified procedure for filing a single
initial patent application to later seek patent protection for an invention in any number of the member states of the PCT. Although
a PCT application does not itself issue as a patent, it acts as a placeholder allowing the applicant to seek protection in any of the
member states through national-phase applications.

We have trademark rights in
our name, logo and other brand elements, including trademark registrations for select marks in the United States and other jurisdictions
around the world, including “ LCG®,” “ GAUZY LCG®,” “ GAUZY®,”
“ GAUZY®(Chinese alphabet),” “ NOCTIS,” “ NUANCE,” “ SMART-VISION,” and “ VISION
SYSTEMS.”

We pursue the registration
of domain names for websites that we use and that we consider material to the marketing of our products, including the gauzy. com domain.

We generally seek to enter
into confidentiality agreements and proprietary rights agreements with our employees and consultants and to control access to, and distribution
of, our proprietary information. However, we cannot guarantee that all applicable parties have