Company: BLLN
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006095
Chunk: 66

Company: BillionToOne, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form: DRS
Chunk 66
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, financial condition and results of operations.

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

In addition to nine U.S. issued patents and 13 pending U.S. patent applications, we held 41 foreign patents and 33 foreign patent applications as of June 5, 2025.
Filing, prosecuting and defending patents and other intellectual property rights covering our products, services and technology in all countries throughout the world would be prohibitively expensive, and our intellectual property rights in some
territories outside the United States can be less extensive than those in the United States. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries and regions do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States,
and we

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may encounter difficulties in protecting and defending such rights in foreign jurisdictions. Consequently, we may not be able to prevent third parties from practicing our inventions in all
jurisdictions, or from selling, making or importing products, services or technology by practicing our intellectual property rights. Competitors may practice our intellectual property rights in jurisdictions where we have not obtained patent
protection to develop, manufacture, sell or import their own products, services or technology and may also export products, services or technology that infringe upon our intellectual property rights to territories where we have patent protection
that do not provide strong intellectual property or enforcement rights as strong as that in the United States. These products, services or technology may compete with our products, services or technology. Our patents or other intellectual property
rights existing outside the United States may not be effective or sufficient to prevent third parties from competing with us. Similarly, intellectual property rights may be exhausted in certain situations, and others could import our products sold
abroad and compete with us domestically.

Many companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in foreign
jurisdictions. The legal systems of many other countries and regions do not favor the enforcement of patents and other intellectual property protection, particularly those relating to biotechnology, which could make it difficult for us to stop the
infringement of our patents and other intellectual property rights in such jurisdictions. Proceedings to enforce our patent rights and other intellectual property rights in foreign jurisdictions could result in substantial cost and divert our
efforts and attention from other aspects of our business, could put our patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and our patent applications at risk of not issuing, and could provoke third parties to assert claims against us. We
may not prevail in any lawsuits