Company: OC
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001370946-25-000077
Chunk: 191

Company: Owens Corning
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 191
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 resolving legal claims and other litigation related to climate change and the alleged impact of our operations on climate change. In addition, energy prices could increase as a result of climate change legislation or other environmental mandates, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations.

In addition, from time to time, we establish targets, strategies and expectations related to climate change and other environmental matters. Our ability to achieve any such targets, strategies or expectations is subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our ability to execute our strategies and achieve our goals within the currently projected costs and expected timeframes, availability, use and success of on and off-site renewable energy, evolving regulatory and other standards, processes, and assumptions, the pace of scientific and technological developments, increased costs and availability of requisite financing, market trends that may alter business opportunities, the conduct of third-party manufacturers and suppliers, constraints or disruptions to our supply chain, and changes in carbon markets. There are no assurances that we will be able to successfully execute our strategies and achieve our targets. Failures or delays (whether actual or perceived) to achieve our targets or strategies related to climate change and other environmental matters could damage our reputation, customer and investor relationships, adversely affect our business, operations and increase risk of litigation.

Our intellectual property rights may not provide meaningful commercial protection for our products or brands and third parties may assert that we violate their intellectual property rights, which could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We rely on our intellectual property, including numerous patents, trademarks, trade secrets, confidential information, as well as our licensed intellectual property, to differentiate our products and brands in the marketplace. We monitor and protect against activities that might infringe, dilute, or otherwise harm our intellectual property and rely on the laws of the United States and other countries to protect our rights. However, in some instances, we may be unaware of unauthorized use of our intellectual property. To the extent we cannot protect our innovations or are unable to enforce our intellectual property rights, unauthorized use and misuse of our intellectual property or innovations could harm our competitive position and have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, the laws of some foreign jurisdictions provide less protection for our proprietary rights than the laws of the United States and we therefore may not be able to effectively enforce our intellectual property rights in these jurisdictions. If we are unable to maintain certain exclusive licenses, our brand