Company: MDCXW
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001062993-25-010580
Chunk: 43

Company: Medicus Pharma Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: 424B3
Chunk 43
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 also have blocking patents that could prevent us from marketing our products or practicing our own patented technology. It may be necessary for us to use the patented or proprietary technology of third parties to commercialize our drug candidates, in which case we would be required to obtain a license from these third parties on commercially reasonable terms. Such a license may not be available, or it may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, in which case our business would be harmed.

The risks described elsewhere pertaining to our intellectual property rights also apply to any intellectual property rights that we may in-license, and any failure by us or our potential licensors to obtain, maintain, defend and enforce these rights could harm our business. In some cases we may not have control over the prosecution, maintenance or enforcement of the patents that we may license, and may not have sufficient ability to provide input into the patent prosecution, maintenance and defense process with respect to such patents, and our potential licensors may fail to take the steps that we believe are necessary or desirable in order to obtain, maintain, defend and enforce the licensed patents.

We may be subject to claims arising from consultants or contractors misappropriating intellectual property.

Many of our consultants and contractors were previously or are concurrently employed at or engaged by biotechnology companies, and/or other pharmaceutical companies, including our competitors or potential competitors, or academic research institutions. Some of these consultants and contractors, including each member of our senior management or our other employees, may have executed proprietary rights, nondisclosure and non-competition agreements in connection with such previous or concurrent employment. We may be subject to claims that we or our consultants and contractors have used or disclosed the intellectual property and other proprietary information or know-how or trade secrets of others in their work for us. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims. We are not aware of any threatened or pending claims related to these matters or concerning agreements with our senior management, or other of our employees, consultants and contractors, but litigation may be necessary in the future to defend against such claims. If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights, or personnel or access to consultants and contractors. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.

In addition, while our policy is to require our consultants and contractors who may be involved in the development of intellectual property to execute agreements assigning such intellectual property to us, we may be unsuccessful in executing such an agreement with each party who in fact