Company: TALK
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-038107
Chunk: 20

Company: Talkspace, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 20
---
 and enforce our intellectual property rights. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions and other legal rights to establish and enforce our brand, proprietary technology and other intellectual property rights.

Through March 12, 2025, the Company has been approved for one patent in the United States related to “System and Method in Monitoring Engagement” which relates to the tracking of therapeutic progress between therapist and customer. We also have one patent that is pending and several other provisional applications in the United States. We intend to continue to apply for additional patents relating to our software and technology. We cannot assure whether any of our patent applications will result in the issuance of a patent or whether the examination process will require us to narrow our claims.

We own and use trademarks and service marks on or in connection with our business and services, including both registered marks and unregistered trademarks in the United States. In addition, we rely on other forms of intellectual property protection including trade secrets, know-how and other unpatented proprietary processes, in each case in support of our business. We make efforts to maintain and protect our intellectual property and the proprietary aspects of our products and technologies, including through the use of nondisclosure agreements and the monitoring of our competitors. Although we take steps to protect our trade secrets and know-how, third parties may independently develop or otherwise gain access to our trade secrets and know-how by lawful means. We require our employees, consultants and certain of our contractors to execute confidentiality agreements in connection with their employment or consulting relationships with us but we cannot guarantee that we have executed such agreements with all applicable counterparties. Furthermore, these agreements may be breached, and we may not have an adequate remedy for any such breach. We also require our employees and consultants to disclose and assign to us inventions conceived during the term of their employment or engagement while using our property or which relate to our business. We also license certain intellectual property rights that are used in our business from third parties. 

From time to time, we may become involved in legal proceedings relating to intellectual property arising in the ordinary course of our business, including opposition to our applications for patents, trademarks, challenges to the validity of our intellectual property rights, and claims of intellectual property infringement. We are not presently a party to any such legal proceedings that, in the opinion of our management, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Additional Information

The Company's principal place of