Company: FTII
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-006997
Chunk: 368

Company: FutureTech II Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-4
Chunk 368
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. We rely on a combination
of patent, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property rights and take measures to protect the intellectual property rights
that we consider important to our business.

The term of individual
patents depends upon the legal term for patents in the countries in which they are granted. In most countries, including the United States,
the patent term is 20 years from the earliest claimed filing date of a non-provisional patent application in the applicable country. In
the United States, a patent’s term can be extended to recapture a portion of the USPTO’s delay in processing the patent to
issue as well as restore a portion of the term effectively lost as a result of the FDA regulatory review period. However, as to the FDA
component, the restoration period cannot be longer than five years and the total patent term including the restoration period must not
exceed 14 years following FDA approval. The duration of patents outside of the United States varies in accordance with provisions of applicable
local law, but typically is also 20 years from the earliest effective filing date. However, the actual protection afforded by a patent
varies on a product-by-product basis, from country to country and depends upon many factors, including the type of patent, the scope of
its coverage, the availability of regulatory-related extensions, the availability of legal remedies in a particular country and the validity
and enforceability of the patent. We cannot be sure that pending patent applications that are filed or may be filed in the future by us
or our licensors will result in issued patents, and we can give no assurance that any patents that have issued or might issue in the future
will protect our current or future products, will provide us with any competitive advantage, and will not be challenged, invalidated,
or circumvented.

We also rely
on trade secret know-how and continuing technological innovation to develop and maintain our competitive position. We seek to protect
our proprietary rights through a variety of methods, including confidentiality agreements and proprietary information agreements with
suppliers, employees, consultants and others who may have access to our proprietary information. However, trade secrets and proprietary
information can be difficult to protect. While we have confidence in the measures we take to protect and preserve our trade secrets and
proprietary information, such measures can be breached, and we may not have adequate remedies for any such breach. In addition, our competitors
may independently discover or develop the same trade secrets and proprietary information as ours. To the extent that our suppliers, employees,