Company: ZM
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001585521-25-000141
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Company: Zoom Communications, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
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Certain states have adopted or are adopting or considering legislation or executive actions that would regulate the conduct of broadband providers. California’s state-specific network neutrality law has taken effect and Vermont’s law took effect, but a challenge to that law remains pending. The FCC’s April 25 order permits it to preempt any state-level network neutrality requirements that go beyond the requirements adopted in that order, but specifically held that the California law would not be preempted. The FCC order was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on January 2, 2025, but the time to seek review of that decision has not expired. For additional information on this order, see the risk factor titled “Failures in internet infrastructure or interference with broadband access could cause current or potential users to believe that our systems are unreliable, possibly leading our customers to switch to our competitors, or to cancel their subscriptions to our platform.” We cannot predict whether other state initiatives will be enforced, modified, overturned, or vacated.

International Regulation

As we expand internationally, we may be subject to telecommunications, consumer protection, privacy, data protection, and other laws and regulations in the foreign countries where we offer our products. If we do not comply with any current or future international regulations that apply to our business, we could be subject to substantial fines and penalties, we may have to restructure our product offerings, exit certain markets, or raise the price of our products, any of which could harm our business.

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Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property

We are currently, and may be in the future, party to intellectual property rights claims and other litigation matters, which, if resolved adversely, could harm our business.

We protect our intellectual property through patents, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, and trade secrets and, from time to time, are subject to litigation based on allegations of infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of intellectual property or other proprietary rights of others. Some companies, including some of our competitors, own large numbers of patents, as well as valuable copyrights and trademarks, which they may use to assert claims against us. As we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, the possibility of intellectual property rights claims, commercial claims, and other assertions against us grows. We have in the past been, are currently, and may from time to time in the future become, a party to litigation and disputes related to our use of intellectual property, our business practices, and our platform. While we intend to defend these lawsuits vigorously and believe that