Company: BOF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-004712
Chunk: 442

Company: BranchOut Food Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 442
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 spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. For example, we may initiate
claims or litigation against others for infringement, misappropriation or violation of our intellectual property rights or other proprietary
rights or to establish the validity of such rights. However, we may be unable to discover or determine the extent of any infringement,
misappropriation or other violation of our intellectual property rights and other proprietary rights. Despite our efforts, we may be
unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon, misappropriating or otherwise violating our intellectual property rights and other
proprietary rights. Any litigation, whether or not it is resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert
the efforts of our technical and management personnel, which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and
results of operations.

In
addition, our licensed technology platform may use open-source software. The use of such open-source software may subject us to certain
conditions, including the obligation to offer, distribute, or disclose our licensed technology platform for no or reduced cost, make
the proprietary source code subject to open-source software licenses available to the public, license our software and systems that use
open-source software for the purpose of making derivative works, or allow reverse assembly, disassembly, or reverse engineering.

We
may not be able to enforce our intellectual property rights throughout the world.

The
laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. Many
companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in certain foreign jurisdictions.
This could make it difficult for us to stop the infringement or the misappropriation of our intellectual property rights. The loss of
the BranchOut brand or logo or other registered or common law trade names or a diminution in the perceived quality of products or services
associated with the Company would harm our business. Our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights in such countries may be
inadequate. In addition, changes in the law and legal decisions by courts in the United States and foreign countries may affect our ability
to obtain adequate protection for our technology and the enforcement of intellectual property.

Third
parties may assert that our employees or consultants have wrongfully used or disclosed confidential information or misappropriated trade
secrets.

Although
we try to ensure that our employees and consultants do not use the proprietary information or know-how of others in their work for us,
we may be subject to claims that we or our employees,