Company: NTCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000153
Chunk: 63

Company: NetClass Technology Inc
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 5
Chunk 63
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 particular, may change over time. If we fail to anticipate and adapt to such technological changes, our market share and our business development could suffer, which in turn could have a material and adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. If we are unsuccessful in addressing any of the risks relating to new courses, services and products, our business may be materially and adversely affected.

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We may be subject to intellectual property infringement claims, which may be expensive to defend and may disrupt our business and operations.

In October 2023, we entered into an AI technical development service contract with an AI development supplier (an independent third party) to implement our AI assisted English learning programs, and the program has been in delivered and in use since January 2024. We cannot be certain that our operations or any aspects of the English learning system do not or will not infringe upon or otherwise violate patents, copyrights or other intellectual property rights held by third parties. In addition, there may be other third-party intellectual property that is infringed by our solutions or services, the solutions or services provided by third-party merchants on our marketplace, or other aspects of our business. There could also be existing patents of which we are not aware that our solutions or services may inadvertently infringe. We cannot assure you that holders of patents purportedly relating to some aspects of our technology platform or business, if any such holders exist, would not seek to enforce such patents against us in Hong Kong, mainland China, the U. S. or any other jurisdictions. Finally, we use open-source software in connection with our solutions and services. Companies that incorporate open-source software into their solutions and services have, from time to time, faced claims challenging the ownership of open-source software and compliance with open-source license terms. As a result, we could be subject to suits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open-source software or noncompliance with open-source licensing terms. Some open-source software licenses may require customers who distribute open-source software as part of their software to publicly disclose all or part of the source code to such software and make available any derivative works of the open-source code on unfavorable terms or at no cost. Any requirement to disclose our source code or pay damages for breach of contract could be harmful to our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We may lose market share and our profitability may be materially and adversely affected, if we fail to compete effectively with our present and future competitors or to adjust effectively to changing market conditions and trends.

We face competition