Company: AIRJW
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001013762-25-002897
Chunk: 49

Company: AirJoule Technologies Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: S-1
Chunk 49
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 proprietary rights from third parties. Additionally, pending applications may not be issued or may be issued with claims significantly narrower than we currently seek. Similarly, patents for which claims have been allowed may be successfully challenged and invalidated. Unless and until our pending applications issue, their protective scope is impossible to determine and, even after issuance, their protective scope may be limited. Also, litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property rights or determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Such litigation may result in our intellectual property rights being challenged, limited in scope or declared invalid or unenforceable. We cannot be certain that the outcome of any litigation will be in our favor, and an adverse determination in any such litigation could impair our intellectual property rights and may harm our business, prospects and reputation. In addition, our success depends in large part on our proprietary information, including certain processes, formulations and other know -howdeveloped over years of research and development. We rely heavily on trade secrets, especially in cases where we believe patents or other forms of registered intellectual property protection may not be appropriate or obtainable. However, trade secrets are difficult to protect. We employ various methods to protect such intellectual property, such as entering into confidentiality agreements with certain third parties and our employees, and controlling access to, and distribution of, our proprietary information. We cannot guarantee that we have entered into such agreements with each party that may have or has had access to our trade secrets or proprietary technology and processes. We cannot assure you that these agreements will provide effective or meaningful protection against the unauthorized use, misappropriation, or disclosure of our trade secrets, know -how, or other proprietary information. Enforcing a claim that a party disclosed proprietary information in an unauthorized manner or misappropriated a trade secret is difficult, expensive and time -consuming, and the outcome is unpredictable. In addition, some courts are less willing or unwilling to protect trade secrets, and agreement terms that address non -competitionare difficult to enforce in many jurisdictions and might not be enforceable in certain cases. Furthermore, competitors may independently develop products or technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our own, regardless of our efforts to maintain the confidentiality of our trade secrets and other proprietary information. If we are unable to effectively protect our technologies, intellectual property, trade secrets and other proprietary information, our competitive position, business, financial condition, and results of operations could be harmed. 25 A number of foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as the United States. Therefore, our