Company: ZLAB
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-008409
Chunk: 192

Company: Zai Lab Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 192
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 which may not be possible or could be expensive and time consuming; 

•cease developing, manufacturing, and commercializing any infringing products, product candidates, or technologies; and 

•pay such third party significant monetary damages, including treble damages and attorneys’ fees, if we are found to have willfully infringed their patent. 

Similarly, claims by third parties that we have misappropriated their confidential information, such as trade secrets, could have a material adverse effect on our business. Even if we are ultimately successful in defending against such claims via litigation(s) or administrative proceeding(s), any such litigation or proceeding may be costly and could result in a substantial diversion of management resources. Consequently, any of the foregoing may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.

Intellectual property litigation and proceedings could cause us to spend substantial resources and distract our personnel from their normal responsibilities.

Even if resolved in our favor, litigation or other such legal proceedings relating to our intellectual property rights may cause us to incur significant expenses and could distract our personnel 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 price of our securities. 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 conduct such litigation or proceedings adequately. Additionally, some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of such litigation or proceedings more effectively than we can, for example, because of greater financial or other resources. Moreover, uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of such litigation or other proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our business.

We may be subject to claims that we or our employees, consultants, or advisors have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets of their current or former employers or are in breach of confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-use, non-competition, or non-solicitation agreements with such current or former employers, some of whom may be our competitors or potential competitors.

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We could in the future be subject to claims that we or our employees, consultants, or advisors have inadvertently or otherwise improperly used or disclosed alleged trade secrets or other proprietary information of current or former employers of our employees, consultants, or advisors. For example, many of our employees, consultants