Company: ZCARW
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001213900-25-059675
Chunk: 361

Company: Zoomcar Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 361
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, and we could face restricted access to capital markets.

If we do not adequately protect our intellectual
property and our data, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be materially adversely affected. 

We rely on a combination
of trademark, copyright, domain names, trade names and trade secret laws, international treaties, our terms of service, other contractual
provisions, user policies, restrictions on disclosures, and confidentiality agreements with our employees and consultants to protect
our intellectual property rights from infringement and misappropriation. We currently have 21 registered trademarks and 1 recent trademark
application that has passed the formalities check and is now under further examination along with 3 trademarks at variance – refused,
abandoned and opposed, 1 patent application published, 3 patent applications under the abandonment process, and 1 patent application
withdrawn in India; and 7 domain names. 

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There is no assurance that
our pending or future trademark, patent, and copyright applications will be approved. Furthermore, effective intellectual property protection
may not be available in every country in which we operate or intend to operate our business and some of the platform features and other
customization of software that is important to our operations is not protected by registered intellectual property rights. There can
be no assurance that others will not offer technologies, functions, features, or concepts that are substantially similar to ours and
compete with our business, or copy or otherwise obtain, disclose and/or use our brand, platform features, design elements, our search-and-ranking
algorithms and machine-learning and artificial intelligence-enhanced tools and capabilities or other information that we consider proprietary
without authorization. We may be unable to prevent third parties from seeking to register, acquire, or otherwise obtain trademarks, copyrights
or domain names that are similar to, infringe upon or diminish the value of our trademarks, copyrights, and our other proprietary rights.
Third parties may obtain or misappropriate certain of our data through website scraping, robots, or other means to launch copycat sites,
aggregate our data for their internal use, or to feature or provide our data through their respective websites, and/or launch businesses
monetizing this data. While we routinely employ technological and legal measures in an attempt to divert, halt, or mitigate such operations,
we may not always be able to detect or halt the underlying activities as technologies used to accomplish these operations continue to
rapidly evolve.

If the protection of our
proprietary rights and data is inadequate to prevent unauthorized use or mis