Company: WLTH
Filing Date: 2025-09-29
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001628280-25-043113
Chunk: 96

Company: WEALTHFRONT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-29
Form: S-1
Chunk 96
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 rights, our brand, business, operating results, and financial condition may be harmed.

From time to time, legal action by us may be necessary to enforce our patents and other intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Protecting our intellectual property rights, both as a defendant and plaintiff, as applicable, through litigation in the United States and potentially internationally may entail significant time and expense. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could negatively affect our business, operating results, and financial condition. If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights, including aspects of our software and platform protected other than by patent rights, we will find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to others who need not incur the expense, time, and effort required to create our platform and other innovative products that have enabled us to be successful to date. Moreover, we may in the future need to expend additional resources to defend our intellectual property rights in foreign countries, and our inability to do so could impair our business.

Third parties have claimed, and may claim in the future, that aspects of our platform or website infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate their intellectual property rights and such claims could be time-consuming or costly to defend or settle, result in the loss of significant rights, or harm our relationships with our clients or reputation in the industry.

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to develop and commercialize our platform, products, and services without infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating the intellectual property rights of third parties. However, we may not be aware that aspects of our platform, products, or services are infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating third-party intellectual property rights and such third parties may bring claims alleging that our current or future platform capabilities, products, and services infringe their intellectual property rights. Such claims may also result in legal claims against our third-party partners and our clients. We cannot predict the outcome of lawsuits and cannot ensure that the results of any such claims will not have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, or financial condition. These claims may be time consuming, costly to defend or settle, damage our brand and reputation, harm our client relationships, and create liability for us. Contractually, we are expected to, and generally do agree to, indemnify our partners for certain expenses or liabilities they may incur as a result of any such third-party intellectual property infringement claims associated