Company: INGN
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-029993
Chunk: 160

Company: Inogen Inc
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 160
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We may not be able to compete as effectively with our competitors and ultimately satisfy the needs and preferences of our customers unless we can continue to enhance existing products, acquire companies with new or different products, sell our existing products, and develop new and innovative products ourselves. Product development requires significant financial, technological and other resources. While we expended $21.6 million, $20.8 million and $21.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively, in research and development efforts, we cannot assure that this level of investment will be sufficient to maintain a competitive advantage in product innovation, which could cause our business to suffer. 

Product improvements and new product introductions also require significant planning, design, development, patent protection, and testing at the technological, product, and manufacturing process levels and we may not be able to timely develop product improvements or new products or obtain necessary patent protection and regulatory clearances or approvals for such product improvements or new products in a timely manner, or at all. Our competitors’ new products may enter the market before our new products reach the market, be more effective with more features, obtain better market acceptance, or render our products obsolete. Any new products that we develop or acquire may not receive market acceptance or otherwise generate any meaningful sales or profits for us relative to our expectations based on, among other things, existing and anticipated investments in manufacturing capacity and commitments to fund advertising, marketing, promotional programs and research and development. In addition, if we are unable to seek and obtain regulatory approval or adequate coverage and reimbursement for any new products that we develop or introduce, in a timely manner or at all, we may realize lower revenue than expected or even no revenue at all from these products. As a result, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially harmed. 

We may expand through acquisitions of, collaborations with, or investments in, other companies, each of which may divert our management’s attention, result in additional dilution to our stockholders, increase expenses, disrupt our operations, and harm our results of operations.

As part of our business strategy, we regularly explore potential acquisitions of, collaborations with, or investments in complementary products, technologies or businesses. We do not have an extensive history of acquiring or entering into collaborations with other companies and cannot assure you that we will successfully identify suitable acquisition candidates or collaboration partners, integrate or manage disparate technologies, lines of business, personnel and corporate cultures, realize our business strategy or the expected return on our