Company: GEHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001932393-25-000005
Chunk: 11

Company: GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 11
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 of imaging equipment and pharmaceutical diagnostics enables building capabilities across disease states through diagnostic pharmaceuticals, hardware, software, and AI and digital solutions. Our strong portfolio of diagnostic agents and advanced global supply chain, combined with our imaging, cyclotron, and advanced visualization software, positions us to grow in existing markets as well as emerging adjacencies.

ACQUISITIONS

Our business strategy includes the acquisition of technologies and businesses that expand or complement our existing business. Refer to Note 8, “Acquisitions, Goodwill, and Other Intangible Assets” for further information.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Our research and development (“R&D”) efforts focus on scientific discovery and research into promising technologies that lead to potential healthcare applications, creating new products, services and solutions, discovery of novel clinical applications for on-market products and solutions, and enhancing our existing products to help improve outcomes for customers and their patients. We deliver value through innovative medical technology solutions across the patient care continuum (including screening, diagnosis, and therapy, monitoring) by leveraging hardware, software, AI, and digital technologies. We engage in and sponsor clinical research and product development through collaborations with universities, medical centers, and other organizations. We occasionally enter into agreements with third parties related to collaboration on R&D activities associated with the development of new or innovative products. 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

We have a substantial portfolio of intellectual property (“IP”). We rely on a combination of patent, design, utility model, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and regulatory exclusivity period protections, as well as confidentiality agreements to protect our IP. Our IP team collaborates with our R&D and product teams to develop product-line-focused IP strategies and secure IP rights as appropriate. We generally file patent applications in the United States and other countries that have strong technology patent protections. We also license from third parties a variety of IP that complements our internal R&D efforts and our product offerings. While, in aggregate, our patents and other IP are vital to our operations, we do not consider any single IP asset or group of assets to be of material importance to any segment or to the business as a whole; rather, we believe understanding our customers’ needs, technology expertise, and manufacturing know-how are critical for our business.

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We rely on confidentiality agreements with colleagues, contractors, consultants, and third parties to help protect our trade secrets, proprietary technology, and other confidential information. We also monitor development and commercialization activities of third parties so our IP rights are not infringed upon. In addition, we