Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001097149-25-000079
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Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
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 patents through Defendants’ manufacture, sale and offer for sale of aligners made with Zendura FLX/ClearQuartz materials. On August 29, 2025 Align filed an amended complaint for damages and injunctive relief. On September 12, 2025, Defendants filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint. That motion to dismiss remains pending. Defendants are also seeking to invalidate all of our asserted patents at the district court and United States Patent and Trial Appeal Board. On July 9, 2024, Defendants filed counterclaims against us alleging antitrust violations, false advertising, unfair competition and breach of contract. Among other things, the counterclaims seek injunctive relief and money damages. On August 29, 2025, Defendants filed amended counterclaims, which additionally allege that Align procured certain materials patents by fraud. On September 26, 2025, Align filed a motion to dismiss the amended counterclaims. That motion remains pending.On April 10, 12 and 14, 2025, the Defendants filed eight inter partes review (“IPR”) petitions with the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), alleging that eight of the patents asserted by Align against the Defendants are unpatentable. On October 23, 2025, the PTAB issued decisions denying institution of two of Defendants eight IPRs. On October 23, 2025, the PTAB issued a decision instituting proceedings on one of the IPRs. Decisions on the remaining five IPRs are expected on or before November 8, 2025. We believe the petitions are without merit and intend to defend ourselves vigorously.We believe Defendants’ counterclaims are without merit and intend to vigorously defend ourselves. We are currently unable to predict the outcome of this lawsuit and cannot determine the likelihood of loss, if any, nor estimate a range of possible loss.Angelalign Technology, Inc.On August 15, 2025, we initiated two actions in the European Union Patent Court against Angelalign Technology, Inc.; Angelalign France Technology SASU; Europe Angelalign Technology B.V.; Angelalign Technology (Germany) GmbH; Italy Angelalign Technology S.R.L.; Shanghai EA Medical Instruments Co., Ltd. (collectively the “Defendants”) for infringing certain patens related to use interface and attachments. The Defendants responded in one action on October 23, 2025, and have yet to respond to the other.On August 18, 2025, we filed a lawsuit