Company: HURA
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-113920
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Company: TuHURA Biosciences, Inc./NV
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: S-4/A
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 instituted by third parties before various patent offices or in courts. For example, Kineta’s pending patent applications may be subject to third-party pre-issuance submissions of prior art to the USPTO or Kineta’s issued patents may be subject to post-grant review proceedings, oppositions, derivations, reexaminations, interference or inter partesreview proceedings, in the United States or elsewhere, challenging Kineta’s patent rights or the patent rights of others. An adverse determination in any such challenges may result in loss of exclusivity or in patent claims being narrowed, invalidated, or held unenforceable, in whole or in part, which could limit Kineta’s ability to stop others from using or commercializing similar or identical technology and products, or limit the duration of the patent protection of Kineta’s technology and products. In addition, given the amount of time required for the development, testing and regulatory review of new product candidates, patents protecting such candidates might expire before or shortly after such candidates are commercialized. The degree of future protection for Kineta’s proprietary rights is uncertain. Only limited protection may be available and may not adequately protect Kineta’s rights or permit Kineta to gain or keep any competitive advantage. Any failure to obtain or maintain patent protection with respect to Kineta’s product candidates or their uses could have a material adverse effect on Kineta’s business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

In addition to the protection afforded by patents, Kineta relies on trade secret protection and confidentiality agreements to protect proprietary know-how that is not patentable, processes for which patents are difficult to enforce and any other elements of Kineta’s discovery and development processes that involve proprietary know-how, information or technology that is not covered by patents. Kineta may also rely on trade secret protection as temporary protection for concepts that may be included in a future patent filing. However, trade secret protection will not protect Kineta from innovations that a competitor develops independently of Kineta’s proprietary know how. If a competitor independently develops a technology that Kineta protects as a trade secret and files a patent application on that technology, then Kineta may not be able to patent that technology in the future, may require a license from the competitor to use Kineta’s own know-how, and if the license is not available on commercially viable terms, then Kineta may not be able to launch its product. Although Kineta requires all of its employees to assign their inventions to Kineta, and requires all of its employees, consultants, advisors and any third parties