Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 249

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 249
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 as part of various agreements.

As
of June 30, 2025, we have 21 issued patents in the United States and filed 47 nonprovisional patent applications in the United States, as well as 38 patent applications in foreign jurisdictions, with respect to our technology. We held 22 registered
trademarks in the United States, including the Circle name and Circle logo, and also held 357 registered trademarks in foreign jurisdictions. We also had 21 pending trademark applications in the United States, as well as 111 pending trademark
applications in foreign jurisdictions. We intend to file additional trademark applications with respect to our brands.

Intellectual property laws,
procedures, and restrictions provide only limited protection and any of our intellectual property rights may be challenged, invalidated, circumvented, infringed, or misappropriated. Further, intellectual property protection may not be available to
us in every country in which our products are available and the laws of certain countries do not protect proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, and, therefore, in certain jurisdictions, we may be unable to protect
our intellectual property. There can be no

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assurance that our intellectual property rights will be sufficient to protect against others offering products or technologies that are substantially similar to ours and that compete with our
business. See “Risk factors—Risks related to intellectual property—Our intellectual property rights are valuable. Any inability to protect and enforce such intellectual property rights could adversely impact our business, results of
operations, financial condition, and prospects” for a more comprehensive description of risks related to our intellectual property and proprietary rights.

Legal proceedings

From time to time, we may be subject
to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of our business activities. The results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty. Refer to “Risk factors—Risks related to our business and
industry—We are and may continue to be subject to litigation, including individual and class action lawsuits, as well as regulatory audits, disputes, inquiries, investigations, and enforcement actions by regulators and governmental
authorities” and Note 23 to our audited consolidated financial statements and Note 22 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for a summary of legal proceedings to which we are a party.

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