Company: TOMZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001654954-25-004233
Chunk: 423

Company: TOMI Environmental Solutions, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 423
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’s operations, harm the Company's reputation, or endanger the environment if the Company, its suppliers or customers do not effectively prevent, detect and recover from these or other security breaches. While the Company has not encountered cyber security challenges that have materially impaired our operations or financial condition it may be the target of cyber security related incidents.

Although management believes the Company has not experienced any cyber security related incident or losses to date related to these cyber security incidents, there can be no assurance that such losses will not be suffered in the future. The Company seeks to actively manage the risks within its control that could lead to business disruptions and cyber security incidents through a comprehensive cyber security program. As cyber security threats present themselves, the Company may be required to expend significant resources to enhance its control environment, processes, practices, and other protective measures. Despite these efforts, such events could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.  

We may be unable to enforce our intellectual property rights throughout the world.

As part of our growth strategy, we are continuing to expand our operations internationally. The laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. Companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in certain foreign jurisdictions. To the extent that we have obtained or are able to obtain patents, trademarks or other intellectual property rights in any foreign jurisdictions, it may be difficult to stop the infringement of our patents, trademarks or the misappropriation of other intellectual property rights. For example, some foreign countries have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent owner must grant licenses to third parties. In addition, some countries limit the availability of certain types of patent rights and enforceability of patents against third parties, including government agencies or government contractors. In these countries, patents may provide only limited benefit or no benefit.

Proceedings to enforce our patent rights in foreign jurisdictions could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business. Accordingly, efforts to protect our intellectual property rights in such countries may be inadequate. In addition, future changes in the law and legal decisions by courts in the United States and foreign countries may affect our ability to obtain adequate protection for our technology and products and the enforcement of intellectual property.

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We face significant competition in our industry, some of which have longer operating histories, more established products or greater resources than we have currently.

The decontamination and environmental infectious disease control industry is extremely competitive. The