Company: MYGN
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000899923-25-000019
Chunk: 89

Company: MYRIAD GENETICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 89
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 any of these obligations, the licensor may have the right to terminate the license. Termination by the licensor would cause us to lose valuable rights, and could prevent us from distributing our current tests, or inhibit our ability to commercialize future test candidates. Our business would suffer if any current or future licenses terminate, if the licensors fail to abide by the terms of the license, if the licensors fail to prevent infringement by third parties, if the licensed patents or other rights are found to be invalid, unenforceable or infringe upon third party patents, or if we are unable to enter into necessary licenses on acceptable terms.

We may be subject to claims that we or our employees have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets.

As is commonplace in our industry, we employ individuals who were previously employed at universities or genetic testing, diagnostic, biotechnology or other health care companies, including our competitors or potential competitors. Although we try to ensure that our employees and consultants do not use the proprietary information or know-how of others in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or our employees or consultants have inadvertently or otherwise used or disclosed trade secrets or other proprietary information of a former employer or other third parties. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims, and if we are unsuccessful, we could be required to pay substantial damages and could lose rights to important intellectual property. Even if we are successful in defending against these claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.

If we fail to adequately protect our trademarks, service marks, trade names and trade dress, we may lose goodwill and brand equity associated with our business.

Our registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks, or trade names could be infringed by third parties. Enforcing our rights against such third parties can be expensive and distracting. If we fail to effectively enforce such rights against third parties, our trademark, service mark or trade name rights, and the associated goodwill and brand equity, could be lost.

We file applications for registration of various marks associated with our brands in the United States and foreign jurisdictions. We may fail to successfully register these marks. Additionally, once a mark is registered, we may fail to pay all fees and attend to all formalities required to maintain the registration. Failure to obtain or maintain registration of our marks could make those marks harder to enforce and reduce the liability of an infringer even if we are able to successfully enforce such rights.

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