Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-126208
Chunk: 242

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 242
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 Circle stablecoins could be treated as general unsecured creditors of Circle, which could result in Circle stablecoin holders receiving only partial recoveries rather than
the full purported value of their stablecoin holdings.

We will continue to monitor legal, regulatory, and other developments in order to take reasonable and
appropriate steps to continue the safeguarding of Circle stablecoin reserves.

Intellectual property

The protection of our technology and intellectual property is an important aspect of our business. We rely upon a combination of trademark, patent, trade secret, and
copyright laws in the United States and similar laws in other countries, as well as confidentiality procedures, contractual commitments, and other legal rights to establish, maintain, and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights. We
have an active program of establishing, maintaining, and protecting our intellectual property and proprietary rights, including our proprietary technology, through the filing of patents, registration of trademarks, and use of contractual measures
and other intellectual property rights. We generally enter into agreements with our employees, consultants, contractors, and other third parties that include confidentiality and nondisclosure provisions in order to limit access to, and disclosure
and use of, our confidential information, trade secrets, know-how, and proprietary technology. Those agreements also often include invention or work product assignment provisions to establish, maintain, and
protect our brand and other intellectual property rights. We may also agree to license our intellectual property to third parties as part of various agreements.

As of March 31, 2025, we have 20 issued patents in the United States and filed 45 nonprovisional patent applications in the United States, as well as 29 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 347 registered trademarks in foreign jurisdictions. We also had 18
pending trademark applications in the United States, as well as 70 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