Company: DVAX
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-049536
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Company: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
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. The existence of third-party patent applications and patents could significantly reduce the coverage of the patents owned by or licensed to us and limit our ability to obtain meaningful patent protection. Litigation or any other proceedings could result in substantial costs to and diversion of effort by us, and an adverse outcome in a court or patent office could subject us to significant liabilities, require disputed rights to be licensed from other parties, or require us to cease using some of our technology. We may not prevail in these actions or proceedings if they arise. 

In addition, other parties may duplicate, design around or independently develop similar or alternative technologies to ours or our licensors. 

The risks and uncertainties that we face with respect to our patents and other proprietary rights include the following:

•we may not receive an issued patent for any of our patent applications or for any patent applications that we may have exclusively licensed, now or in the future;

•the pending patent applications we have filed or to which we have exclusive rights may take longer than we expect to result in issued patents;

•the claims of any patents that are issued may not provide meaningful protection or may not be valid or enforceable;

•we might not be able to develop additional proprietary technologies that are patentable;

•the patents licensed or issued to us or our collaborators may not provide a competitive advantage;

•patents issued to other parties may limit our intellectual property protection or harm our ability to do business;

•other parties may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate our technologies and commercialize discoveries that we attempt to patent; 

•other parties may design around technologies we have licensed, patented or developed;

•pending patent applications or issued patents may be challenged by third parties in litigation or other proceedings, such as inter partes reviews, pre- and post-grant oppositions, reexaminations, derivation proceedings and post-grant review, in the U.S or abroad;

•we may be subject to claims that our employees or consultants have used or disclosed trade secrets or other proprietary information of their former employers or clients, thus putting our intellectual property at risk;

•our reliance on trade secret protection and confidentiality and other agreements may not be sufficient to protect our interests and proprietary know-how related to our products and processes; and

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•it may be found that we or our collaborators have not complied with various procedural, document submission, fee payment and other requirements imposed by patent offices, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated.

We also rely on trade secret protection and confidentiality agreements to protect our interests in proprietary know-how that may