Company: IOT
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001642896-25-000022
Chunk: 64

Company: Samsara Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 64
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 a copycat complaint alleging that Samsara has engaged in patent infringement, false advertising, and trade secret misappropriation, among other things. Motive is currently seeking unspecified damages and an injunction. In November 2024, we filed an additional lawsuit against Motive alleging that they have misappropriated our trade secrets. The scope and outcome of these litigation matters are uncertain. Responding to these matters and similar matters may be costly and time-consuming and may distract management from other business priorities. We have agreed in certain customer and channel or other partner contracts to indemnify customers and channel or other partners, and have accepted tenders for indemnification from certain of such customers, for expenses or liabilities they incur as a result of third-party intellectual property infringement claims associated with our solution. To the extent that any claim arises as a result of third-party technology we use in our solution, we may be unable to recover from the appropriate third party any expenses or other liabilities that we incur.

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Companies in the software and technology industries, including some of our current and potential competitors, own patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. In addition, many of these companies have the capability to dedicate substantially greater resources to enforce their intellectual property rights and to defend claims that may be brought against them than we do. Furthermore, patent holding companies, non-practicing entities, and other patent owners that are not deterred by our existing intellectual property protections may seek to assert patent claims against us. Third parties may assert patent, copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights against us, our channel partners, our technology partners, or our customers. We have received notices and been subject to litigation (and we may be subject to litigation in the future) that claims we have misappropriated, misused, or infringed other parties’ intellectual property rights, and, to the extent we gain greater market visibility, we face a higher risk of being the subject of intellectual property infringement claims, which is not uncommon with respect to IoT devices and the enterprise software market. These and other possible disagreements, including claims that we may bring against other parties, could lead to delays in the research, development, or commercialization of our systems, or could require or result in costly and time-consuming litigation that may not be decided in our favor. Any such event could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

There may be third-party intellectual property rights, including issued or