Company: DJTWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-004837
Chunk: 94

Company: Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 424B3
Chunk 94
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 registration for “Truth Social” held by Claudio Lopes. Mr. Lopes filed for his European Union trademark registration for “Truth Social” on October 21, 2021, which was the day after TMTG publicly announced its upcoming launch of the Truth Social platform. The cancellation proceeding is therefore based on Mr. Lopes’s bad faith registration. Mr. Lopes received his European Union trademark registration for “Truth Social” on February 3, 2022, and has claimed that TMTG is infringing his European Union trademark registration for “Truth Social.” On July 8, 2025, Mr. Lopes filed a notice of opposition against T Media Tech LLC’s EU trademark application. The EUIPO rejected the cancellation proceeding, and an appeal of the EUIPO’s decision was filed on January 22, 2025. In addition, on January 23, 2025, T Media Tech LLC filed a second cancellation proceeding with the EUIPO against Mr. Lopes’s “Truth Social” European Union registration. In addition, if TMTG’s advertising customers do not own the copyright for advertising content included in their advertisements or if digital media property owners do not own the copyright for content to the digital media next to which the advertisements appear, advertisers and digital media properties could receive complaints from copyright owners, which could harm TMTG’s reputation and TMTG’s business. As such, litigation diverts the time and resources of TMTG’s Management Team, regardless of the merits of the claim. There can be no assurance that TMTG would prevail in any future litigation relating to TMTG’s intellectual property or licensing agreements. If TMTG were to lose such a case and be required to cease the sale of certain products or the use of certain technology or branding or were forced to pay monetary damages, the results could adversely affect TMTG’s business and reputation. TMTG must comply with licenses related to the use of free, publicly-available software incorporated in Truth Social products; failure to do so could cause the loss of the ability to use such software which could in turn adversely affect TMTG’s revenues and results of operations. In October 2021, Software Freedom Conservancy policy fellow Bradley M. Kuhn accused TMTG of violating the licensing agreement for the free, publicly available software platform, Mastodon. Although any entity can use the code from Mastodon, according to the licensing agreement (AGPLv3), each user of the software must receive “