Company: ALAR
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-025287
Chunk: 22

Company: Alarum Technologies Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 22
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. In addition, third parties may obtain patents in
the future and claim that the use of our technologies infringes upon these patents.

If
any third-party patents were held by a court of competent jurisdiction to cover aspects of our formulations, processes for designs, or
methods of use, the holders of any such patents may be able to block our ability to develop and commercialize the applicable product
candidate unless we obtain a license or until such patent expires or is finally determined to be invalid or unenforceable. In either
case, such a license may not be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

Parties
making claims against us may obtain injunctive or other equitable relief, which could effectively block our ability to further develop
and commercialize one or more of our products. Defense of these claims, regardless of their merit, would involve substantial litigation
expense and would be a substantial diversion of employee resources from our business. In the event of a successful claim of infringement
against us, we may have to pay substantial damages, including treble damages and attorneys’ fees for willful infringement, pay
royalties, redesign our infringing products or obtain one or more licenses from third parties, which may be impossible or require substantial
time and monetary expenditure.

Patent
policy and rule changes could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our patent applications and the enforcement
or defense of any issued patents.

Changes
in either the patent laws or interpretation of the patent laws in the United States and other countries may diminish the value of any
patents that may issue from our patent applications or narrow the scope of our patent protection. Publications of discoveries in the
scientific literature often lag the actual discoveries, and patent applications in the United States and other jurisdictions are typically
not published until 18 months after filing, or in some cases not at all. We therefore cannot be certain that we were the first to file
the inventions claimed in our patents or pending applications, or that we were the first to file for patent protection of such inventions.
Assuming all other requirements for patentability are met, in the United States prior to 2013, the first patent applicant to invent the
claimed invention without undue delay in filing, is entitled to the patent, while for the most part outside the United States, the first
inventor to file a patent application is entitled to the patent. After 2013, the United States has moved to a first-inventor-to-file
system. The United States patent system is