Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-307510
Chunk: 51

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: 425
Chunk 51
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 Company Subsidiary has
received any written notice of any pending claim with respect to any Intellectual Property owned by the Company or any Company Subsidiary; and (e) since

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January 1, 2023, no third party has gained unauthorized access to any information technology networks or assets controlled by and material to the operation of the business of the Company and
its Subsidiaries. Except as would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, the Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable actions to avoid the abandonment, cancellation or
unenforceability of all Intellectual Property owned or licensed, respectively, by the Company and its Subsidiaries. For purposes of this Agreement, “” means trademarks, service marks, trade names, brand names,
Internet domain names, logos, symbols, certification marks, trade dress and other indications of origin, the goodwill associated with the foregoing and registrations in any jurisdiction of, and applications in any jurisdiction to register, the
foregoing, including any extension, modification or renewal of any such registration or application; inventions, discoveries and ideas, whether patentable or not, in any jurisdiction; patents, applications for patents (including divisions,
continuations, continuations in part and renewal applications), all improvements thereto and any re-examinations, renewals, extensions or reissues thereof, in any jurisdiction; trade secrets and know-how (including processes, technologies, protocols, formulae, prototypes and confidential information and rights in any jurisdiction to limit the use or disclosure thereof by any person); writings and other
works, whether copyrightable or not and whether in published or unpublished works, in any jurisdiction; and registrations or applications for registration of copyrights in any jurisdiction, and any renewals or extensions thereof; and any similar
intellectual property or proprietary rights.

3.21 . Other than agreements or arrangements that are part
of normal and customary terms of an individual’s employment or service as a director, officer or employee, there are (a) no transactions or series of related transactions, agreements, arrangements or understandings, nor are there any
currently proposed transactions or series of related transactions, between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any current or former director, officer or shareholder (or, to the Company’s knowledge, any member of such
shareholder’s family or any trusts or other entities established for the benefit of such shareholder or members of such