Company: CSLMF
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-155514
Chunk: 142

Company: CSLM ACQUISITION CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 142
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 restrictions on our ability to market our platform. By the terms of certain open source licenses, if we combine our proprietary software with open source 
 software in a certain manner, we could be required to release the source code of our proprietary software and to make our proprietary software available under open source licenses.                                                                      |

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| • |     | We may face claims alleging noncompliance with open source license terms or misappropriation or other                                                                                                                                                
 violation of open source technology. These claims could result in litigation, damage our reputation in the open-source community, or require us to purchase a costly license, devote additional research or development resources to re-engineer our 
 products or services, discontinue the sale of our products if re-engineering could not be accomplished on a timely or cost-effective basis, require us to make the source code of our proprietary code generally available, or result in us being    
 enjoined from the offering of components of our platform that contained the open source software, any of which would have a negative effect on our business and operating results.                                                                   |

| • |     | We also could be subject to lawsuits from other parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open                                                                                                                                              
 source software. Litigation could be costly for us to defend, have a negative effect on our operating results or financial condition, and could require us to devote additional research and development resources to re-engineer our platform. In    
 addition to risks related to license requirements, usage of open source software can lead to greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or controls on the origin of the 
 software.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

Claims by others that Fusemachines infringes upon their intellectual property could force Fusemachines to incur significant costs or revise the way Fusemachines conducts its business. Our competitors protect their proprietary rights by means of patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property. We have not conducted an independent review of patents and other intellectual property issued to third-parties (often referred to as a freedom to operate search), who may have patents or patent applications relating to our proprietary technology. We may receive letters from third parties alleging, or inquiring about, possible infringement, misappropriation or violation of their intellectual property rights. Any party asserting that we infringe, misappropriate or violate proprietary rights may force us to defend ourselves, and potentially our customers, against the alleged claim. These claims and any resulting lawsuit, if successful, could subject us to significant liability for damages and/or invalidation of