Company: INVUP
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001193
Chunk: 1076

Company: Investview, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 1076
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Sales and Marketing.”

Intellectual
Property

We
rely on a combination of trade-secret protection and confidentiality and/or license agreements with our employees, customers, partners,
and others to protect our proprietary rights. Relative to our distributors, we rely on a more customary form of confidentiality protection.
It is our general practice to enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with all of our employees and independent
contractors. Such agreements include a confidentiality undertaking by the employee or independent contractor; ensure that all new intellectual
property developed in the course of our relationship with employees or independent contractors is assigned to us; and require the employee
or independent contractor to cooperate with us to protect our intellectual property during and after their relationship with us. With
respect to our financial education and technology business, the intellectual property that makes our business competitive consists of,
among others, valuable trade secrets, know-how, concepts, methods, techniques and materials used in our business, consisting principally
of educational materials, domain names, relationships with strategic vendors and customer lists.

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With
respect to our cryptocurrency mining business, we actively use specific hardware and software. In certain cases, source code and other
software assets may be subject to an open-source license, as much technological development underway in this sector is open source. For
these works, we adhere to the terms of any license agreements that may be in place. We do not currently own, and do not have any current
plans to seek, any patents in connection with our existing and planned blockchain and cryptocurrency related operations.

With
respect to our planned Brokerage and Financial Markets business, in September 2021 we acquired the source code and object code of the
proprietary algorithmic trading platform of MPower. This also included all know-how and other intellectual property necessary, useful
and/or used in the software. We also acquired a proprietary trading platform in connection with our acquisition of Opencash in March
2024. The proprietary elements of each of our trading platforms are protected as trade secrets.

With
respect to our health, beauty and wellness business, we own two trademarks that have been registered with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office and have filed applications to register additional trademarks. In addition, we claim domestic trademark and service
mark rights in numerous additional marks that we use. We regard our trademarks and other proprietary rights as valuable assets and believe
they make a significant positive contribution to the marketing of our products. We protect our legal rights concerning our trademarks
by appropriate legal action. We rely on common law trademark rights