Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
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Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 177
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 breadth of any issued patent claims. Numerous patents and pending patent applications owned by others exist in the fields in which we have developed and are developing our technology. These patents and patent applications may subject our patent applications to invalidation. Finally, any of our existing or pending patents may also be challenged by others on the basis that they are otherwise invalid or unenforceable.

We rely on licenses from third parties for intellectual property rights that are critical to our business, and we would lose the rights to such intellectual property rights if those agreements were terminated or not renewed.

We expect that the long-term contracts and commercial arrangements that we have and intend to enter into with partners may include licenses. We rely on these licenses from our partners for certain intellectual property rights that are or may become critical to our business. Termination of our current or future agreements could cause us to have to negotiate new or amended agreements with less favorable terms or cause us to lose our rights under the original agreements.

In the event that we lose intellectual property rights relating to technology used in or in conjunction with our software, we may not be able to continue to ensure the interoperability of our software with certain hardware or may experience disruption to our development and commercialization efforts as we test and re-qualify any potential replacement technology. Even if we retain licenses, the licenses may not be exclusive with respect to such component design or technologies, which could aid our competitors and have a negative impact on our business. If such licenses were to terminate prematurely (including due to a breach) or we otherwise fail to maintain such licenses, we may lose the ability to continue our operations that rely on such licenses, which could have a negative impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In addition to patented technology, we rely on our unpatented proprietary technology, trade secrets, processes and know-how.

We rely on technical measures and contractual measures to protect proprietary or competitively sensitive information, technology or materials (such as trade secrets, know-how and confidential information) that may not be patentable or subject to copyright, trademark, trade dress or service mark protection, or that we believe is best protected

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by means that do not require public disclosure. We typically seek to protect this proprietary information by limiting its disclosure and by entering into confidentiality agreements, consulting services or employment agreements that contain non-disclosure and non-use provisions. We may fail to enter into the necessary agreements, or such agreements may be breached or may otherwise fail to prevent disclosure, third-party infringement or mis