Company: TOMZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001654954-25-004233
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Company: TOMI Environmental Solutions, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 Any of these occurrences could negatively impact our financial performance.

Conversely, if we underestimate customer demand, we may not be able to deliver sufficient products to meet our customers’ requirements, which could result in damage to our reputation and customer relationships. In addition, if we experience a significant increase in demand, additional supplies of raw materials or additional manufacturing capacity may not be available when required on terms that are acceptable to us, or at all, and suppliers or our third-party manufacturers may not be able to allocate sufficient resources to meet our increased requirements, which could have an adverse effect on our ability to meet customer demand for our products and our results of operations.

Our success depends on our ability to adequately protect our intellectual property.

Our commercial success depends, in part, on our ability to obtain, maintain, defend, file new or enforce our existing patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights covering our technologies and products throughout the world. We may, however, be unable to adequately preserve such rights due to a number of reasons, including the following:

 ·our rights could be invalidated, circumvented, challenged, breached or infringed upon; ·we may not have sufficient resources to adequately prosecute or protect our intellectual property rights; ·upon expiration of our patents, certain of our key technology may become widely available; or ·third parties may be able to develop or obtain patents for similar or competing technology.

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Although we devote resources to the establishment and protection of our patents and trademarks, the actions we have taken or will take in the future may not be adequate to prevent violation of our patents, trademarks and proprietary rights by others or prevent others from seeking to block sales of our products as an alleged violation of their patents, trademarks and proprietary rights. In the future, litigation may be necessary to enforce our trademarks or proprietary rights and we may be forced to defend ourselves against claimed infringement or the rights of others. Any such litigation could result in adverse determinations that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

In addition, we rely in part upon unpatented trade secrets, unpatented know-how, and continuing technological innovation which may not yet, or may never be, patented, to develop and maintain our competitive position, which we seek to protect, in part, by confidentiality agreements with our employees, third party manufacturers, and consultants. We also have agreements with our employees and consultants that obligate them to assign their inventions to us. It is possible that technology relevant to our