Company: IOT
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001642896-25-000022
Chunk: 130

Company: Samsara Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 130
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Our Intellectual Property

Intellectual property rights are important to the success of our business. 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, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements, and other contractual protections, to protect our intellectual property rights, including our proprietary technology, software, know-how and brand.

As of February 1, 2025, our portfolio consisted of 147 issued and 15 allowed (issuance pending) patents in the United States. Our issued patents are scheduled to expire between 2035 and 2044. We also had 106 patent applications pending for examination in the United States and three non-U.S. patent applications. Despite our pending patent applications, there can be no assurance that our patent applications will result in issued patents.

Although we rely on intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as contractual protections to establish and protect our proprietary rights, we believe that factors such as the technological and creative skills of our personnel, creation of new services, features and functionality, and frequent enhancements to our platform are more essential to establishing and maintaining our technology leadership position.

We control access to and use of our proprietary technology and other confidential information through the use of internal and external controls, including contractual protections with employees, contractors, customers and partners. We generally require our employees, consultants and other third parties to enter into confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements and we control and monitor access to our software, documentation, proprietary technology and other confidential information. Our policy is to require all employees and independent contractors to sign agreements assigning to us any inventions, trade secrets, works of authorship, developments, processes and other intellectual property generated by them on our behalf and under which they agree to protect our confidential information. In addition, we generally enter into confidentiality agreements with our customers and partners. See the section titled “Risk Factors” for a discussion of risks related to our intellectual property.

Government Regulation

We are subject to a wide variety of laws and regulations in the United States and other jurisdictions and devote considerable resources to compliance with these laws and regulations.

For example, to the extent our products function as ELDs, we are subject to regulation by the FMCSA and foreign regulatory agencies. The FMCSA requires that ELD manufacturers register and self-certify that each ELD model and version they offer for sale has been sufficiently tested to meet certain functional requirements. Similarly