Company: SNBH
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001731122-25-000581
Chunk: 87

Company: SENTIENT BRANDS HOLDINGS INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 87
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 by entering into confidentiality agreements with parties who have access to them, such as our employees,
collaborators, contract manufacturers, consultants, advisors, and other third parties. We cannot guarantee that we have entered into such
agreements with each party that may have or have had access to our trade secrets or proprietary technology and processes. Moreover, there
can be no assurance that any confidentiality agreements that we have with our employees, consultants, or other third parties will provide
meaningful protection for our trade secrets, know-how, and confidential information or will provide adequate remedies in the event of
unauthorized use or disclosure of such information. Despite these efforts, any of these parties may breach the agreements and disclose
our proprietary information, including our trade secrets, and we may not be able to obtain adequate remedies for such breaches. Monitoring
unauthorized uses and disclosures is difficult, and we do not know whether the steps we have taken to protect our proprietary technologies
will be effective. Accordingly, there also can be no assurance that our trade secrets or know-how will not otherwise become known or be
independently developed by competitors.

Enforcing a claim that a party illegally disclosed
or misappropriated a trade secret can be difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, and the outcome is unpredictable. In addition, trade
secrets may be independently developed by others in a manner that could prevent legal recourse by us. If any of our confidential or proprietary
information, such as our trade secrets, were to be disclosed or misappropriated, or if any such information was independently developed
by a competitor, our competitive position would be materially and adversely harmed. Trade secrets and know-how can be difficult to protect
as trade secrets and know-how will over time be disseminated within the industry through independent development, the publication of journal
articles, and the movement of personnel skilled in the art from company to company or academic to industry scientific positions. If any
of our trade secrets were to be lawfully obtained or independently developed by a competitor or other third party, we would have no right
to prevent such competitor from using that technology or information to compete with us, which could harm our competitive position. Because
from time to time we expect to rely on third parties in the development, manufacture and distribution of our products and provision of
our services, we must,

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at times, share trade secrets with them. We seek to protect our proprietary technology in part by entering into
confidentiality agreements and, if applicable, material transfer agreements, license agreements