Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: ARS
Source: 0001401914-25-000018
Chunk: 195

Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: ARS
Chunk 195
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. We cannot guarantee that we or any of our licensors’ patent searches or analyses, including but not limited to the identification of relevant patents, the scope of patent claims or the expiration of relevant patents, are complete or thorough, nor can we be certain that we have identified each and every third-party patent and pending application in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere that is relevant to or necessary for the commercialization of our product candidates in any jurisdiction. For example, in the U.S., applications filed before November 29, 2000 and certain applications filed after that date that will not be filed outside the U.S. remain confidential until patents issue. Patent applications in the U.S., EU and elsewhere are published approximately 18 months after the earliest filing for which priority is claimed, with such earliest filing date being commonly referred to as the priority date. Therefore, patent applications covering our future product candidates, or their manufacture or use may currently be unpublished. Additionally, pending patent applications that have been published can, subject to certain limitations, be later amended in a manner that could cover our product candidates or the use of our product candidates. The scope of a patent claim is determined by an interpretation of the law, the written disclosure in a patent and the patent’s prosecution history. Our or our licensors’ interpretation of the relevance or the scope of a patent or a pending application may be incorrect, which may negatively impact our ability to market our product candidates. We or our licensors may incorrectly determine that our product candidates are not covered by a third-party patent or may incorrectly predict whether a third party’s pending application will issue with claims of relevant scope. Our or our licensors’ determination of the expiration date of any patent in the U.S., the EU or elsewhere that we consider relevant may be incorrect, which may negatively impact our ability to develop and market our product candidates. Our licensors’ failure to identify and correctly interpret relevant patents may negatively impact our ability to develop and market our product candidates. From time to time, we or our licensors may identify patents or applications in the same general area as our products and product candidates. We or our licensors may determine these third-party patents are irrelevant to our business based on various factors including our or our licensors’ interpretation of the scope of the patent claims and our or our licensors’ interpretation of when the patent expires. If the patents are asserted against us, however, a court may disagree with our or our licensors’ determinations. Further, while we or our licensors may determine that the scope of claims that will issue from a patent application does