Company: BNRG
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-020178
Chunk: 21

Company: Brenmiller Energy Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 21
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, if possible, also be forced to redesign our
new products so that we no longer infringe third-party intellectual property rights. Any of these events, even if we were ultimately to
prevail, could require us to divert substantial financial and management resources that we would otherwise be able to devote to our business.

Patent policy and
rule changes could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our patent applications and the enforcement or
defense of any issued patents.

Changes
in either the patent laws or interpretation of the patent laws in the United States and other countries may diminish the value of any
patents that may issue from our patent applications or narrow the scope of our patent protection. The laws of foreign countries may not
protect our rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. Publications of discoveries in the scientific literature often
lag behind the actual discoveries, and patent applications in the United States and other jurisdictions are typically not published until
18 months after filing, or in some cases not at all. We therefore cannot be certain that we were the first to file the invention claimed
in our owned and licensed patent or pending applications, or that we or our licensor were the first to file for patent protection of such
inventions. Assuming all other requirements for patentability are met, in the United States prior to March 15, 2013, the first to make
the claimed invention without undue delay in filing is entitled to the patent, while generally outside the United States, the first to
file a patent application is entitled to the patent. After March 15, 2013, under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, or the Leahy-Smith
Act, enacted on September 16, 2011, the United States has moved to a first-to-file system. The Leahy-Smith Act also includes a number
of significant changes that affect the way patent applications will be prosecuted and may also affect patent litigation. In general, the
Leahy-Smith Act and its implementation could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our patent applications
and the enforcement or defense of any issued patents, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial
condition.

We may be involved
in lawsuits to protect or enforce our intellectual property, which could be expensive, time-consuming, and unsuccessful.

Competitors
may infringe our intellectual property. If we were to initiate legal proceedings against a third party to enforce a patent covering one
of our new products or services, the defendant