Company: CNDT
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001677703-25-000029
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Company: CONDUENT Inc
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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•Smaller, niche business processing service providers and in-house departments that perform functions that could be outsourced.

Sales and Marketing

We market and sell our solutions and services to both potential and existing clients through our global sales and business development teams. Additionally, we have dedicated account managers and solution architects who work with clients to better understand their business requirements and tailor our standard solutions to meet their unique needs. 

Our solutions solve clients' business issues and help them achieve their desired business outcomes. We leverage our broad portfolio of offerings and dedicated team of associates to package solutions that exactly meet clients’ needs, while taking a disciplined approach to pricing and contracting. Our sales efforts typically involve extended selling cycles where our deep domain and industry expertise is critical to winning new business. We maintain strong relationships with our clients from initial engagement to implementation and on-going service delivery.

CNDT 2024 Annual Report10

Intellectual Property

Generally, our policy is to seek patent protection for those inventions likely to be incorporated into our products and services or where obtaining such proprietary rights will improve our competitive position. As of December 31, 2024, we own approximately 504 U.S. patents and have 14 pending applications. Our patent portfolio evolves as new applications are filed, patents are awarded to us and as older patents expire. These patents expire at various dates, generally 20 years from their original filing dates. Additionally, approximately 140 U.S. patents and applications were included with assets divested with the public safety business. While we believe that our portfolio of patents and applications has value, in general, no single patent is essential to our business or to any individual segment of our business. In addition, any of our proprietary rights could be challenged, invalidated, or circumvented, or may not provide significant competitive advantages. 

Our business relies on software provided, to an approximately equal extent, by both internal development and external sourcing to deliver our services. With respect to internally developed software, we claim copyright on all such software, registering works which may be accessible to third parties. In addition, we rely on maintaining source code confidentiality to assure our market competitiveness. With respect to externally sourced software, we rely on contracts assuring our continued access for our business use.

In the United States, we own 38 registered trademarks, with 4 pending, reflecting the many businesses we participate in. These trademarks may have a perpetual life, subject to renewal every 10 years and may be subject to cancellation or invalidation based on certain use requirements