Company: APM
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001213900-25-063899
Chunk: 74

Company: Aptorum Group Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: DRS
Chunk 74
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 disputes prior to litigation, and any such license agreements may require us to pay royalties and other fees that could
significantly reduce our profitability for any product related to that patent and thus harm our business.

Even if resolved in our favor,
litigation or other legal proceedings relating to IP claims may cause us to incur significant expenses, and could distract our technical
personnel, management personnel, or both from their normal responsibilities. In addition, there could be public announcements of the results
of hearings, motions or other interim proceedings or developments, and if securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be
negative, it could have a substantial adverse effect on the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. Such litigation or proceedings
could substantially increase our operating losses and reduce the resources available for development activities or any future sales, marketing
or distribution activities. We may not have sufficient financial or other resources to adequately conduct such litigation or proceedings.
Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of such litigation or proceedings more effectively than we can because of their
greater financial resources. Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of patent litigation or other proceedings could
have a material adverse effect on our ability to compete in the marketplace.

There may be patent applications pending of which we are not aware, but which cover similar products to the ones we are attempting to license or develop, which may result in lost time and money, as well as litigation.

It is possible that we have
failed to identify relevant outstanding patents or applications. For example, U.S. applications filed before November 29, 2000 and certain
U.S. applications filed after that date that will not be filed outside the United States remain confidential until patents are issued.
Patent applications filed in the United States after November 29, 2000 and generally filed elsewhere are published approximately 18 months
after the earliest filing for which priority is claimed, with such earliest filing date being commonly referred to as the priority date.
Therefore, patent applications covering our products could have been filed by others without our knowledge. Additionally, pending patent
applications which have been published can, subject to certain limitations, be later amended in a manner that could cover our products
or the use of our products. Holders of any such unanticipated patents or patent applications may actively bring infringement claims against
us, with the same potential litigation consequences as alluded to elsewhere in this prospectus. Any of these events could require us to
divert substantial financial and management resources that we would otherwise be able to devote