Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 172

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 172
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. Our inability to protect our proprietary technology against unauthorized copying or use, as well as any costly litigation or diversion of our management’s attention and resources, may delay the introduction and implementation of new technologies, resulting in our substituting inferior or more costly technologies or injure our reputation. Moreover, policing unauthorized use of our technologies, trade secrets and intellectual property may be difficult, expensive and time-consuming, particularly in foreign countries where the laws may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States and where mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be weak. If we fail to meaningfully establish, maintain, protect and enforce our intellectual property and proprietary rights, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected.

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Our proprietary works, technologies and information are developed by our employees and contractors. Although it is our policy to require our employees and consultants who may be involved in the conception or development of intellectual property to execute agreements assigning the intellectual property and related rights to us, we may be unsuccessful in executing such an agreement with each party who conceives or develops intellectual property and related rights that we regard as our own or such party may breach the assignment agreement. We may be subject to lawsuits filed by employees or contractors claiming ownership of such intellectual property and related rights. Litigation may be necessary to obtain ownership or to defend against claims challenging inventorship. If we fail in any such litigation, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights. Such an outcome could substantially harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to our management and other employees, and such claims could substantially harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Although not strictly an intellectual property right, we consider our registered domain names to be part of our intellectual property portfolio. We are the registrants for domain names for websites that we use in our business. We may not be able to, or it may not be cost effective to, acquire or maintain all domain names that utilize the name “PlusAI” or other business brands in all of the countries in which we currently conduct or intend to conduct business. Further, we may be unable to prevent competitors or other third parties from acquiring or using domain names that are similar to or diminishes the value of our domain names. If such third party domain name incorporates any of the trademarks that we have registered in the relevant jurisdiction, then we