Company: OCG
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-043484
Chunk: 25

Company: Oriental Culture Holding LTD
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 25
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 their trading positions are met. After a trading account is activated, it becomes a “tradable” account
and will remain tradable until the account is closed. We define “active” accounts as tradable accounts that have executed
at least one trade during a relevant period.

We believe that the growth of tradable accounts
and active accounts, combined with our strategy to focus on premier customers, has historically contributed to the significant growth
of our trading volume.

Competition

The art e-commerce market is highly competitive and many traditional
art galleries and auction houses may provide a platform for collectibles or artwork owners to sell their collections. However, their trading
model is substantially different from ours. As of December 31, 2024, there were over 10 active art e-commerce platforms operating nationwide
in China. The trading service providers compete with each other for customers and trading volume based on factors including
brand, technology, research and customer services.

Intellectual Property

We regard our trademarks, domain names, know-how,
proprietary technologies and similar intellectual property as critical to our success, and we rely on trademark law, trade secret law
and confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and others to protect our proprietary rights.

We have one registered trademark in China that
we acquired from a third party. This trademark is a graphic trademark with registration No. 5120703. We submitted the transfer documents
to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the PRC on January 29, 2019, and the transfer of ownership
to us was completed on July 6, 2019.

We have one software copyright registration and
own 6 domain names. The software copyright name is “ Entrusted Warehouse Management System V1.0.” which has been upgraded in
2021. We also own the software for our app which has not been registered with Copyright Protection Center of China.

Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary
rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy or otherwise obtain and use our intellectual property. Monitoring unauthorized use of
our intellectual property is difficult and costly, and we cannot be certain that the steps we have taken will prevent misappropriation
of our intellectual property. From time to time, we may have to resort to litigation to enforce our intellectual property rights, which
could result in substantial costs and diversion of our resources.

In addition, third parties may initiate litigation
against us alleging infringement of their proprietary rights or declaring their non-infringement of our intellectual property rights