Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 30

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 30
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 held for use in, the conduct of the business of the
Acquired Corporations as currently conducted; provided that this sentence is not a representation or warranty with respect to infringement, misappropriation or other violation of Intellectual Property Rights.

(b) Except as would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Acquired Corporations, taken as a whole, no interference, opposition,
reissue, reexamination proceeding, cancellation proceeding, or other Legal Proceeding (other than routine office examination proceedings with respect to pending applications) is pending or threatened in writing (i) in which the scope, validity,
enforceability or ownership of any Company Owned IP is being contested or challenged, or (ii) that is otherwise challenging or seeking to deny or restrict any rights of any Acquired Corporation in any Company Owned IP.

(c) The Company takes reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality of all Trade Secrets or confidential information included in the
Company Owned IP or otherwise disclosed in confidence to any Acquired Corporation and, to the knowledge of the Company, there has not been any disclosure of or unauthorized access to any such Trade Secrets or confidential information to any Person,
except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) The consummation of
the Transactions will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any other Person in respect of, any Acquired Corporation’s right to own, use, or hold for use any
Intellectual Property Rights as owned, used, or held for use (including for defensive purposes) in the conduct of the business as currently conducted and as contemplated to be conducted, except as would not reasonably be expected to be material to
the Acquired Corporations, taken as a whole.

(e) Except as would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Acquired Corporations,
taken as a whole, (i) the conduct of each Acquired Corporation’s business as currently conducted and as currently contemplated to be conducted does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate, and, since July 1, 2022, has not
infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, any Intellectual Property Rights owned by any other Person, and (ii) since July 1, 2022, no Legal Proceeding has been asserted or, to the knowledge of the Company, has been threatened in
writing, against any Acquired Corporation alleging that the conduct of any Acquired Corporation’s business