Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 173

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 173
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 may be able to bring a claim of trademark infringement (see risks related to enforcement of trademark above). If we lose the ability to use a domain name or have to contend with the existence of confusingly similar domain names held by third parties, we could incur additional expenses to market our brand within that country. This could substantially harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights globally, and changes in U.S. intellectual property law may diminish the value of our intellectual property in general, thereby impairing our ability to protect our products.

There are a number of recent changes to the patent laws that may have a significant impact on our ability to protect our technology and enforce our intellectual property rights. Other intellectual property rights, for example rights around the scope of protection that can be claimed for AI/ ML models, datasets, weights, and biases are not fully understood, and may continue to change. Any change to the treatment of intellectual property rights, or to the scope of intellectual property rights may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Further, the standards applied by the USPTO and foreign patent offices in granting patents are not always applied uniformly or predictably within an organization, or between organizations As such, we do not know the degree of future protection that we will have on our technologies, products, and services. While we will endeavor to try to protect our technologies, products, and services with intellectual property rights such as patents, as appropriate, the process of obtaining patents is time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes unpredictable.

In addition to increasing uncertainty with regard to our ability to obtain patents in the future, this combination of events has created uncertainty with respect to the value of patents, once obtained. Depending on decisions by the U.S. Congress, the federal courts, and the USPTO, the laws and regulations governing patents may change in unpredictable ways that may weaken our ability to obtain new patents or to enforce our existing patents and patents that we might obtain in the future. Actions in foreign jurisdictions may create similar problems or may create divergent issues based on uncertain or different results.

Third-party claims that we are infringing intellectual property rights, whether successful or not, could subject us to costly and time-consuming litigation or expensive licenses, and our business could be adversely affected.

Although we hold key patents related to our technology, a number of companies, organizations, or individuals, both within and outside of the autonomous vehicle industry, hold other patents covering aspects of autonomous vehicle technology. In addition