Company: FLDDW
Filing Date: 2025-01-24
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001213900-25-006075
Chunk: 146

Company: Fold Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-24
Form: 424B3
Chunk 146
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, as well as confidentiality and license agreements with our employees, contractors, consultants, and third parties with whom we have relationships, to establish and protect our brand, our proprietary technology and our intellectual property rights. However, our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights may not be sufficient or effective and may not adequately permit us to gain or keep any competitive advantage. Despite our efforts to obtain and maintain intellectual property rights, we cannot guarantee that will be able to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of our confidential information, intellectual property or technology, and any of our intellectual property rights may be challenged, which could result in them being narrowed in scope or declared invalid or unenforceable. There can be no assurance that our intellectual property rights will be sufficient to protect against others offering products, services, or technologies that are substantially similar to ours and that compete with our business. Effective protection of our intellectual property may be expensive and difficult to maintain, both in terms of application and registration costs as well as the costs of defending and enforcing those rights. As we have grown, we have 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. 78 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