Company: IOT
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001642896-25-000022
Chunk: 61

Company: Samsara Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 61
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 methodologies, know-how, and branding. We rely on a combination of trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property laws, contractual restrictions, and technical organizational security and confidentiality procedures to establish and protect our proprietary rights. However, the steps we take to protect our intellectual property rights, including our efforts in building out our patent portfolio or asserting our intellectual property rights against other parties, may be limited or inadequate. For instance, we will not be able to protect our intellectual property rights if we are unable to enforce our rights or if we do not detect unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights, or unauthorized or unlawful use of our software, technology, or intellectual property rights. We also cannot guarantee that our intellectual property rights will provide competitive advantages to us, that our ability to assert our intellectual property rights against potential competitors or to settle current or future disputes will be unobstructed by our relationships with third parties, that any of our pending or future patent applications will have the coverage originally sought, or that we will not lose the ability to assert our intellectual property rights against or to license our technology to others and collect royalties or other payments. Further, the laws of some countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States, and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate.

In addition, despite our precautions, it may be possible for unauthorized third parties to copy our solution, use information that we regard as proprietary to create offerings that compete with ours, or infringe upon or misappropriate our intellectual property. Some of our competitors have engaged in, and may in the future engage in, business practices that we consider to be unlawful. For example, in January 2024, we filed a lawsuit against Motive alleging that they have engaged in patent infringement, false advertising, fraud, computer fraud and abuse, and unfair competition. In February 2024, we also filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, seeking an import ban on Motive’s products. In November 2024, we filed an additional lawsuit against Motive alleging that they have misappropriated our trade secrets. Responding to these and similar misconduct may be costly and time-consuming and may distract management from other business priorities. There is also no guarantee that third parties will abide by the terms of our agreements or that we will be able to adequately enforce our contractual rights. We may also be unable to prevent third parties from acquiring or using domain names or trademarks that are similar to, infringe upon, or diminish the value of our trademarks and other