Company: IMRX
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001790340-25-000135
Chunk: 524

Company: Immuneering Corp
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 524
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 we do not intend, there is a risk that open source licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to provide or distribute our platform. Additionally, we may from time to time face claims from third parties claiming ownership of, or seeking to enforce the terms of, an open source license, including by demanding release of source code for the open source software, derivative works or our proprietary source code that was developed using, or that is distributed with, such open source software. These claims could also result in litigation and could require us to make our proprietary software source code freely available, devote additional research and development resources to re-engineer our platform, seek costly licenses from third parties, pay monetary damages to the owner of the copyright in the relevant open source software or otherwise incur additional costs and expenses, any of which could result in reputational harm and would have a negative effect on our business and results of operations. In addition, if the license terms for the open source software we utilize change, we may be forced to re-engineer our platform, incur additional costs to comply with the changed license terms or replace the affected open source software. Although we have implemented policies to regulate the use and incorporation of open source software into our platform and solutions, we cannot be certain that such policies will be effective and that we have not incorporated open source software in our platform and solutions in a manner that is inconsistent with such policies.

Intellectual property rights do not necessarily address all potential threats to our competitive advantage.

The degree of future protection afforded by intellectual property rights is uncertain because intellectual property rights have limitations, and may not adequately protect our business or permit us to maintain our competitive advantage. For example and without limitation:

•others may be able to develop products that are similar to our product candidates but that are not covered by the claims of the patents that we may own or license;

•we or our potential future licensors might not have been the first to make the inventions covered by the issued patents or patent application that we may own or license;

•we or our potential future licensors might not have been the first to file patent applications covering certain of our inventions;

•others may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate any of our technologies without infringing our intellectual property rights;

•it is possible that our, or our future licensors’, pending patent applications will not lead to issued patents;

•future issued patents that we own or license may be held invalid or unenforceable, as a result of legal challenges by our competitors;

•our competitors