Company: CERO
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-066152
Chunk: 97

Company: CERO THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form: S-1
Chunk 97
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 expected to reverse such priorities, several states and other geographic regions in the United States have also adopted legislation and regulations to reduce emissions of GHGs. On March 6, 2024, the SEC finalized new rules for public companies that would require extensive climate-related disclosures and significant analysis of the impact of climate-related issues on our business strategy, results of operations, and financial condition (the “SEC Climate Disclosure Rules”). Following court challenges initiated during the Biden administration and while the SEC was led by former Chairman Gensler that resulted in the indefinite delay in implementation of the SEC Climate Disclosure Rules, on March 27, 2025, the SEC announced that it had voted to end its defense of such rules in court. Nevertheless, if the SEC or state regulatory authorities were to seek to impose such rules in the future, our legal, accounting and other compliance expenses would increase significantly. . We may also be exposed to legal or regulatory action or claims as a result of any such new regulations. All of these risks could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, and/or stock price. Risks Related to Intellectual Property Our intellectual property rights are valuable, and any inability to protect them could reduce the value of our products, services and brand. The loss of any procured intellectual property rights in our products could permit our competitors to manufacture their own version of our products. We have attempted to protect our intellectual property rights in our products through a combination of patents, confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements and other contractual protection mechanisms, and we will continue to do so. While we intend to defend against threats to our intellectual property, our patents or various contractual protections may not adequately protect our intellectual property. In addition, we could be required to expend significant resources to defend our rights to proprietary information, and may not be successful in such defense. As such, we may not be successful in preventing third parties from infringing, copying or misappropriating our intellectual property. There can also be no assurance that pending patent applications owned by us will result in patents being issued to us, that patents issued to or licensed by us in the past or in the future will not be challenged or circumvented by competitors or that such patents will be found to be valid or sufficiently broad to protect our products or to provide us with any competitive advantage. Third parties could also obtain patents that may require us to negotiate to obtain licenses to conduct our business, and any required licenses may not be available on reasonable terms or at all. We also rely on confidentiality and non-compete agreements with