Company: DAWN
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001193125-25-264649
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Company: Day One Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 3
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fully used or disclosed alleged confidential information or trade secrets of their former employers. As is common in the biopharmaceutical industry, in addition to our employees, we engage the services of consultants to assist us in the development of OJEMDA and our product candidates. Many of these consultants, and many of our employees, were previously employed at, or may have previously provided or may be currently providing consulting services to, other pharmaceutical companies including our competitors or potential competitors. We may become subject to claims that we, our employees or a consultant inadvertently or otherwise used or disclosed trade secrets or other information proprietary to their former employers or their former or 

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current clients. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims. If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights or personnel, which could adversely affect our business. Even if we are successful in defending against these claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to our management team and other employees. The patent protection and patent prosecution for OJEMDA and some of our product candidates may be dependent on third parties. While we normally seek to obtain the right to control prosecution, maintenance and enforcement of the patents relating to OJEMDA and our product candidates, there may be times when the filing and prosecution activities for patents and patent applications relating to OJEMDA and our product candidates are controlled by our licensors or collaboration partners. If any of our licensors or collaboration partners fail to prosecute, maintain and enforce such patents and patent applications in a manner consistent with the best interests of our business, including by payment of all applicable fees for patents covering OJEMDA and our product candidates, we could lose our rights to the intellectual property or our exclusivity with respect to those rights, our ability to develop and commercialize OJEMDA and those product candidates may be adversely affected and we may not be able to prevent competitors from making, using and selling competing products. In addition, even where we have the right to control patent prosecution of patents and patent applications we have licensed from third parties, we may still be adversely affected or prejudiced by actions or inactions of our licensors and their counsel that took place prior to the date upon which we assumed control over patent prosecution. Currently, our intellectual property protection includes patents and patent applications that we have in-licensed from, among others, Viracta Therapeutics, Inc., Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, M