Company: DJTWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001140361-25-004822
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Company: Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 the future TMTG or customers who use TMTG’s products may be alleged to be infringing the trademarks, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property rights of third parties, including
          allegations made by TMTG’s competitors or by non-practicing entities. As mentioned below, TMTG is currently engaged in a dispute over trademark rights in the European Union, in an administrative litigation setting. TMTG cannot predict whether
          assertions of third-party intellectual property rights or claims arising from these assertions will substantially harm TMTG’s business and operating results. If TMTG is forced to defend any infringement claims, whether they are with or without
          merit or are ultimately determined in TMTG’s favor, TMTG may face costly litigation and diversion of technical and management personnel. Some of TMTG’s competitors have substantially greater resources than TMTG does and are able to sustain the
          cost of complex intellectual property litigation to a greater extent and for longer periods of time than TMTG could. Furthermore, an adverse outcome of a dispute may require TMTG: to pay damages, potentially including treble damages, and
          attorneys’ fees, if TMTG is found to have willfully infringed a party’s patent or other intellectual property rights; to cease making, licensing or using products that are alleged to incorporate or make use of the intellectual property of others;
          to expend additional development resources to redesign TMTG’s products; to rebrand its services; and to enter into potentially unfavorable royalty or license agreements in order to obtain the rights to use necessary technologies and current
          branding. Royalty or licensing agreements, if required, may be unavailable on terms acceptable to TMTG, or at all. In any event, TMTG may need to license intellectual property which would require TMTG to pay royalties or make one-time payments.
          Even if these matters do not result in litigation or are resolved in TMTG’s favor or without significant cash settlements, the time and resources necessary to resolve them could harm TMTG’s business, operating results, financial condition and
          reputation.

The USPTO previously issued a non-final rejection of T Media Tech LLC’s applications to register the trademarks “Truth Social” and
          “TRUTHSOCIAL” for use with a social media network based on its view that such use of these trademarks by T Media Tech LLC would be likely to confuse consumers because of the similarity of these trademarks to existing registered and pending
          trademarks. On