Company: GNMSF
Filing Date: 2025-02-12
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001558370-25-000846
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Company: GENMAB A/S
Filing Date: 2025-02-12
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4I
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 scope of our patents. Our patents have been and may in the future be challenged by third parties in post-issuance administrative proceedings or in litigation as invalid, not infringed or unenforceable under U.S. or foreign laws, or they may be infringed by third parties. As a result, we are or may be from time to time involved in the defense and enforcement of our patent or other intellectual property rights in a court of law and administrative tribunals, such as in USPTO inter partes review or reexamination proceedings, foreign opposition proceedings or related legal and administrative proceedings in the U.S. and elsewhere. The costs of defending our patents or enforcing our proprietary rights in post-issuance administrative proceedings or litigation may be substantial and the outcome can be uncertain. An adverse outcome may allow third parties to use our proprietary technologies without a license from us or our collaboration partners. Our collaboration partners’ patents may also be circumvented, which may allow third parties to use similar technologies without a license from us or our collaboration partners.
Our commercial success depends significantly on our ability to operate without infringing patents and proprietary rights of third parties. Organizations such as pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and research institutions may have filed patent applications or may have been granted patents that cover technologies similar to the technologies owned or licensed to us or to our collaboration partners. In addition, we are monitoring the progress of several pending patent applications of other organizations that, if granted in their broadest scope, may require us to license or challenge their validity or enforceability in order to continue commercializing our products and product candidates directly or through our collaboration partners. Our and our collaboration partners’ challenges to patents of other organizations may not be successful, which may affect our and our collaboration partners’ ability to commercialize daratumumab, ofatumumab, tisotumab vedotin, epcoritamab, amivantamab, teclistamab, talquetamab, or teprotumumab or our ability to commercialize our product candidates. We cannot determine with certainty whether patents or patent applications of other parties may materially affect our or our collaboration partners’ ability to make, use or sell daratumumab, ofatumumab, tisotumab vedotin, epcoritamab, amivantamab, teclistamab, talquetamab, teprotumumab or any other products or product candidates.
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