Company: BNRG
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-020178
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Company: Brenmiller Energy Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
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 we may have inventorship disputes arise from conflicting obligations of consultants or others who are involved in developing
our products or services. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these and other claims challenging inventorship or claiming the
right to compensation. If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual
property rights, such as exclusive ownership of, or right to use, valuable intellectual property. Such an outcome could have a material
adverse effect on our business. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs
and be a distraction to management and other employees.

We may not be able
to protect our intellectual property rights throughout the world.

Filing,
prosecuting, and defending patents on products and services, as well as monitoring their infringement in all countries throughout the
world would be prohibitively expensive, and our intellectual property rights in some countries can be less extensive than those in the
United States. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as federal
and state laws in the United States.

Competitors
may use our technologies develop their own products or services in jurisdictions where we have not obtained patent protection to and may
export infringing products or services to territories where we have patent protection, but where patents are not enforced as strictly
as they are in the United States. These products or services may compete with our products or services. Future patents or other intellectual
property rights may not be effective or sufficient to prevent them from competing.

Many
companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in foreign jurisdictions. The
legal systems of certain countries, particularly certain developing countries, do not favor the enforcement of patents, trade secrets,
and other intellectual property protection, which could make it difficult for us to stop the marketing of competing products or services
in violation of our proprietary rights generally. Proceedings to enforce our patent rights in foreign jurisdictions, whether or not successful,
could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business, could put our future patents
at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly, put the issuance of our patent applications at risk, and could provoke third parties
to assert claims against us. We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate, and any damages or other remedies that we may be awarded,
may not be commercially meaningful. Accordingly, our efforts to monitor and enforce our intellectual property rights around the world
may be inadequate to