Company: NAVN
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001628280-25-042130
Chunk: 80

Company: Navan, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: S-1
Chunk 80
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 or perceived failure to comply with such laws and regulations, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Any sensitive information (including confidential, competitive, proprietary, or personal data) that we or our customers and their users input into a third-party Gen AI, including Gen AI or ML, platform could be leaked or disclosed to others, including if sensitive information is used to train the third parties’ AI, including Gen AI or ML, model. Additionally, where an AI, including Gen AI or ML, model ingests personal data and makes connections using such data, those technologies may reveal other personal or sensitive information generated by the model. Our failure or inability to protect our intellectual property rights, or claims by others that we are infringing upon or unlawfully using their intellectual property, could diminish the value of our brand and weaken our competitive position, and could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects. We currently rely on a combination of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition laws, as well as confidentiality agreements and procedures and licensing arrangements, to establish and protect our intellectual property rights. We have devoted substantial resources to the 54 development of our proprietary technologies and related processes. In order to protect our proprietary technologies and processes, we rely in part on trade-secret laws and confidentiality agreements with our employees, licensees, independent contractors, suppliers, partners, and other advisors. These agreements may not effectively prevent disclosure of confidential information and may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. We cannot be certain that the steps taken by us to protect our intellectual property rights will be adequate to prevent infringement of such rights by others. Additionally, the process of obtaining patent or trademark protection is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications or apply for all necessary or desirable trademark applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner. Even if we are successful in such prosecutions, such legal protections may be incomplete or time-limited. Though an issued patent is presumed valid and enforceable, this presumption is not conclusive. Patents, if issued, may be challenged, deemed unenforceable, invalidated or circumvented and the related proceedings could be costly. And even if not invalidated, patents only have a limited lifespan. Furthermore, the issuance of a patent does not give us the right to practice the patented invention. Third parties may have blocking patents that could prevent us from marketing our own products and practicing our own technology. Alternatively, third