Company: FLDDW
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001213900-25-074298
Chunk: 86

Company: Fold Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: 424B3
Chunk 86
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 sought to obtain and protect our intellectual property rights in an increasing number of countries, a process that can be expensive and may not always be successful. Further, intellectual property protection may not be available to us in every country in which our products and services may become available. We may be sued by third parties for alleged infringement of their intellectual property rights. In recent years, there has been considerable patent, copyright, trademark, domain name, trade secret and other intellectual property development activity in the cryptocurrency and payments industries, as well as litigation, based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property, including by large financial institutions. Furthermore, individuals and groups can purchase patents and other intellectual property assets for the purpose of making claims of infringement to extract settlements from companies like ours. Our use of third -partyintellectual property rights also may be subject to claims of infringement. We cannot guarantee that our internally developed or acquired technologies and content do not or will not infringe or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of others. From time to time, our competitors or other third parties may claim that we are infringing or have misappropriated their intellectual property rights, and we may be found liable as a result. Any claims or litigation, whether having merit or not, could cause us to incur significant expenses and may be time consuming to defend. And if any such claims are successfully asserted against us, we could be required to pay substantial damages or ongoing royalty payments, we could be prevented from offering our products or services or using certain technologies, or we could be forced to implement expensive work -arounds. We expect that the occurrence of infringement claims related to our Bitcoin related products and services is likely to grow as the Bitcoin network grows and matures. Accordingly, our exposure to damages resulting from infringement claims could increase and potentially exhaust our financial and management resources. Further, during the course of any litigation, we may make announcements regarding the results of hearings and motions, and other interim developments. If securities analysts and investors regard these announcements as negative, the market price of our Common Stock may decline. Even if intellectual property claims are meritless, do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and require significant expenditures. Any of the foregoing could prevent us from competing effectively and could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition. Our platform contains third-party open source software components, and failure to comply with the terms of the underlying open source software licenses could harm