Company: BOF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-004712
Chunk: 301

Company: BranchOut Food Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 301
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our trademarks. Any of our trademarks or other intellectual property rights or future patents (if any) may be challenged by others or
invalidated through administrative process or litigation. Any of our future patent and trademark applications may never be granted. To
date, we have applied for patent protection with the United States Patent and Trademark Office with respect to certain of the manufacturing
processes that we use (in addition to our licensed technology). Even if we are granted one or more patents with respect to our manufacturing
process, there is no guarantee that others will not independently develop or otherwise acquire equivalent or superior technology or intellectual
property rights. Furthermore, our confidentiality agreements may not effectively prevent disclosure of our proprietary information, technologies
and processes and may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized disclosure of such information.

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We
might be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. For example, we may initiate
claims or litigation against others for infringement, misappropriation or violation of our intellectual property rights or other proprietary
rights or to establish the validity of such rights. However, we may be unable to discover or determine the extent of any infringement,
misappropriation or other violation of our intellectual property rights and other proprietary rights. Despite our efforts, we may be
unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon, misappropriating or otherwise violating our intellectual property rights and other
proprietary rights. Any litigation, whether or not it is resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert
the efforts of our technical and management personnel, which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and
results of operations.

In
addition, our licensed technology platform may use open-source software. The use of such open-source software may subject us to certain
conditions, including the obligation to offer, distribute, or disclose our licensed technology platform for no or reduced cost, make
the proprietary source code subject to open-source software licenses available to the public, license our software and systems that use
open-source software for the purpose of making derivative works, or allow reverse assembly, disassembly, or reverse engineering.

We
may not be able to enforce our intellectual property rights throughout the world.

The
laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. Many
companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in certain foreign jurisdictions.
This could make it difficult for us to stop the infringement