Company: DVAX
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001029142-25-000071
Chunk: 445

Company: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 445
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 rights may take longer than we expect to result in issued patents;

•the claims of any patents that are issued may not provide meaningful protection or may not be valid or enforceable;

•we might not be able to develop additional proprietary technologies that are patentable;

•the patents licensed or issued to us or our collaborators may not provide a competitive advantage;

•patents issued to other parties may limit our intellectual property protection or harm our ability to do business;

•other parties may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate our technologies and commercialize discoveries that we attempt to patent; 

•other parties may design around technologies we have licensed, patented or developed;

•pending patent applications or issued patents may be challenged by third parties in litigation or other proceedings, such as inter partes reviews, pre- and post-grant oppositions, reexaminations, derivation proceedings and post-grant review, in the U.S or abroad;

•we may be subject to claims that our employees or consultants have used or disclosed trade secrets or other proprietary information of their former employers or clients, thus putting our intellectual property at risk;

•our reliance on trade secret protection and confidentiality and other agreements may not be sufficient to protect our interests and proprietary know-how related to our products and processes; and

•it may be found that we or our collaborators have not complied with various procedural, document submission, fee payment and other requirements imposed by patent offices, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated.

We also rely on trade secret protection and confidentiality agreements to protect our interests in proprietary know-how that may not be directed to what is considered to be patentable subject matter, and for processes for which patents are difficult to enforce. We cannot be certain that we will be able to protect our trade secrets or other proprietary know-how adequately. Any disclosure of confidential data in the public domain or to third parties could allow our competitors to learn our trade secrets. If we are unable to adequately obtain or enforce proprietary rights, we may be unable to commercialize or continue to commercialize our products, enter into or maintain collaborations, generate revenues or maintain any advantage we may have with respect to existing or potential competitors.

We have in the past, and may in the future, rely on licenses to intellectual property from third parties. Impairment of these licenses or our inability to obtain or maintain them could severely harm our business.

Our current or future research and development efforts may depend in part upon our license arrangements for certain intellectual property owned by or co-owned with third parties. Our dependence on these licenses could subject