Company: DVAX
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-049536
Chunk: 457

Company: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 457
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In addition, other parties may duplicate, design around or independently develop similar or alternative technologies to ours or our licensors. 

The risks and uncertainties that we face with respect to our patents and other proprietary rights include the following:

•we may not receive an issued patent for any of our patent applications or for any patent applications that we may have exclusively licensed, now or in the future;

•the pending patent applications we have filed or to which we have exclusive rights may take longer than we expect to result in issued patents;

•the claims of any patents that are issued may not provide meaningful protection or may not be valid or enforceable;

•we might not be able to develop additional proprietary technologies that are patentable;

•the patents licensed or issued to us or our collaborators may not provide a competitive advantage;

•patents issued to other parties may limit our intellectual property protection or harm our ability to do business;

•other parties may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate our technologies and commercialize discoveries that we attempt to patent; 

•other parties may design around technologies we have licensed, patented or developed;

•pending patent applications or issued patents may be challenged by third parties in litigation or other proceedings, such as inter partes reviews, pre- and post-grant oppositions, reexaminations, derivation proceedings and post-grant review, in the U.S or abroad;

•we may be subject to claims that our employees or consultants have used or disclosed trade secrets or other proprietary information of their former employers or clients, thus putting our intellectual property at risk;

•our reliance on trade secret protection and confidentiality and other agreements may not be sufficient to protect our interests and proprietary know-how related to our products and processes; and

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•it may be found that we or our collaborators have not complied with various procedural, document submission, fee payment and other requirements imposed by patent offices, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated.

We also rely on trade secret protection and confidentiality agreements to protect our interests in proprietary know-how that may not be directed to what is considered to be patentable subject matter, and for processes for which patents are difficult to enforce. We cannot be certain that we will be able to protect our trade secrets or other proprietary know-how adequately. Any disclosure of confidential data in the public domain or to third parties could allow our competitors to learn our trade secrets. If we are unable to adequately obtain or enforce proprietary rights, we may be unable to commercialize or continue to commercialize our products, enter into or maintain collaborations, generate