Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-013053
Chunk: 207

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-4/A
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 can be subjective. While Tvardi undertakes to accurately identify correct inventorship of inventions made on its behalf by its employees, consultants and contractors, an employee, consultant or contractor may disagree with its determination of inventorship and assert a claim of inventorship. Any disagreement over inventorship could result in Tvardi being forced to defend its determination of inventorship in a legal action which could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to its senior management and scientific personnel.

While Tvardi typically requires employees, consultants and contractors who may develop intellectual property on its behalf to execute agreements assigning such intellectual property to Tvardi, Tvardi may be unsuccessful in obtaining execution of assignment agreements with each party who in fact develops intellectual property that it regards as its own. Moreover, even when Tvardi obtains agreements assigning intellectual property to it, the assignment of intellectual property rights may not be self-executing or the assignment agreements may be breached. In either case, Tvardi may be forced to bring claims against third parties, or defend claims that they may bring against Tvardi, to determine the ownership of what it regards as its intellectual property. Furthermore, individuals executing agreements with Tvardi may have preexisting or competing obligations to a third party, such as an academic institution, and thus an agreement with Tvardi may be ineffective in perfecting ownership of inventions developed by that individual. If Tvardi is unsuccessful in obtaining assignment agreements from an employee, consultant or contractor who develops

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intellectual property on its behalf, the employee, consultant or contractor may later claim ownership of the invention. Any disagreement over ownership of intellectual property could result in Tvardi losing ownership, or exclusive ownership, of the contested intellectual property, paying monetary damages and/or being enjoined from clinical testing, manufacturing and marketing of the affected product candidate(s). Even if Tvardi is successful in prosecuting or defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to its senior management and scientific personnel.

Tvardi may be subject to claims by third parties asserting that its employees or it has misappropriated their intellectual property or claiming ownership of what it regards as its own intellectual property.

Many of Tvardi’s current and former employees, including its senior management, were previously employed at universities or at other biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, including some which may be competitors or potential competitors. Although Tvardi takes commercially reasonable steps to ensure that its employees do not use the proprietary information,