Company: ABTC
Filing Date: 2025-07-22
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001213900-25-066299
Chunk: 137

Company: American Bitcoin Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-07-22
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 137
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 may take to protect its intellectual property and other proprietary rights may not be adequate to protect such rights or prevent third parties from infringing or misappropriating such rights. A third party might try to reverse engineer or otherwise obtain and use ABTC’s technology without its permission. ABTC cannot guarantee that others will not readily ascertain by proper means the proprietary technology used in or embodied by ABTC’s services or technology or that others will not independently develop substantially equivalent products, services or technology or that ABTC can meaningfully protect the rights to unpatented products, services or technology. ABTC cannot guarantee that its agreements with its employees, consultants, advisors, sublicensees and strategic partners will provide meaningful protection for its intellectual property and other proprietary rights. 54 ABTC’s intellectual property may infringe claims of third-party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, which could adversely affect its business and profitability. ABTC’s commercial success may depend, in part, on its ability to operate without infringing third -partyintellectual property rights or other proprietary rights. For example, there may be issued patents of which it is not aware that its services or technology infringe on. Also, there may be patents that ABTC believes that it does not infringe on, but that it may ultimately be found to by a court of law or government regulatory agency. Moreover, patent applications, in some cases, are maintained in secrecy until patents are issued. Because patents can take many years to issue, there may be currently pending applications of which ABTC is unaware that may later result in issued patents that its services or technology allegedly infringe on. If a third party brings any claim against ABTC based on third -partyintellectual property rights and/or other proprietary rights, it will be required to spend significant resources to defend and challenge such claim, as well as to invalidate any such rights. Any such claim, if initiated against ABTC, whether or not it is resolved in ABTC’s favor, could result in significant expense to ABTC and divert the efforts of technical and management personnel, which could have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition and results of operations. Risks Related to the Combined Company In determining whether you should approve the issuance of shares of Combined Company Common Stock and the Proposals, you should carefully read the following risk factors in addition to the risks described above and the other information included or incorporated by reference in this proxy statement/prospectus. If any of the events described in “Risks Related to Gryphon” or “Risks Related to