Company: FSLY
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001517413-25-000063
Chunk: 34

Company: Fastly, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 34
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 servers and network hardware that form the foundation of our mission critical edge cloud environment. We invest in research into global Internet geography to identify optimal colocation site selection, network partner identification, and network-to-network interconnection opportunities. These activities allow us to connect in close proximity to core Internet backbones and Internet service providers, thereby enhancing network performance. We carefully evaluate and test hardware from leading server, network, and component manufacturers to assess their compliance with our workload performance, system efficiency, and mean time-to-repair standards. In our process, we evaluate commodity server and network platforms to avoid vendor lock-in, while optimizing the mix of components in an effort to improve efficiency and optimize our capital expenditures. We intend to grow the number of data center colocation sites as traffic on our network grows and as demands for new markets justify investment.

Trust

Our security, compliance and data governance teams, as well as other departments across the company, continually iterate on our trust programs to better meet growing customer needs, updated regulatory requirements, and the evolving security threat landscape. To help validate the controls that safeguard our platform and the data moving through it, we have expanded our portfolio of security and compliance-related assessments and certifications over time.

Intellectual Property

We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws in the United States and other jurisdictions, as well as license agreements and other contractual protections, to protect our proprietary technology. We also rely on a number of registered and unregistered trademarks to protect our brand.

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As of December 31, 2024, in the United States, we had 105 issued or allowed patents, which expire between August 2033 and March 2042, and three patent applications pending for examination. As of such date, we also had 25 issued patents and nine patent applications published or pending for examination in foreign jurisdictions, all of which are related to U.S. patents and patent applications. In addition, as of December 31, 2024, we had 20 registered trademarks and two pending trademarks in the United States. As of such date, we also had 35 registered trademarks in foreign jurisdictions. 

In addition, we seek to protect our intellectual property rights by requiring our employees and independent contractors involved in development of intellectual property on our behalf to enter into agreements acknowledging that all works or other intellectual property generated or conceived by them on our behalf are our property, and assigning to us any rights, including intellectual property rights, that they may claim or otherwise have in those works or property, to the extent