Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001213900-25-125341
Chunk: 96

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: 424B3
Chunk 96
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 may be precluded from obtaining a license at all. It is also possible that an adverse finding of infringement against us may require us to dedicate substantial resources and time to developing non -infringingalternatives, which may or may not be possible. 53 Finally, we may initiate claims to assert or defend our own intellectual property against third parties. Any intellectual property litigation, irrespective of whether we are the plaintiff or the defendant, and regardless of the outcome, is expensive and time -consuming, and could divert our management’s attention from our business and negatively affect our operating results or financial condition. We may be subject to claims by third parties asserting that our employees or we have misappropriated our intellectual property, or claiming ownership of what we regard as our own intellectual property. Although we try to ensure that we and our employees and independent contractors do not use the proprietary information or know -howof others in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or our employees or independent contractors have used or disclosed intellectual property in violation of others’ rights. These claims may cover a range of matters, such as challenges to our trademarks, as well as claims that our employees or independent contractors are using trade secrets or other proprietary information of any such employee’s former employer or independent contractors. As a result, we may be forced to bring claims against third parties, or defend claims they may bring against us, to determine the ownership of what we regard as our intellectual property. If we fail in prosecuting or defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights or personnel. Even if we are successful in prosecuting or defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management. Our new Salute Series lines of spirits may be subject to claims of misuse or unapproved use of certain imagery or terms associated with the U.S. military or first responders. We may come under attack for not having authentic military or first responder roots for a particular line or design under this product line. Although we try to ensure that we do not infringe on any third -partytrademark, or use unapproved logos or images in our marketing, certain branches of the U.S. military or first responders may object to our brand positioning under our Salute Seriesor related spirits lines or to our use of certain terms, marks, images or logos. While we have successfully navigated this issue over the past seven years with our 1 stSpecial Forces Group Whiskey honoring the 1 stSpecial Forces Group at