Company: WLTH
Filing Date: 2025-09-29
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001628280-25-043113
Chunk: 94

Company: WEALTHFRONT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-29
Form: S-1
Chunk 94
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, and contractual provisions, including confidentiality agreements, to establish and protect our intellectual property and proprietary technology, including from unauthorized use or disclosure by our clients, third-party partners, vendors, employees, and consultants. However, despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights,

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unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our platform or obtain and use information we regard as proprietary. There can be no assurance that our intellectual property rights will be sufficient to protect against our competitors gaining access to our proprietary technology or developing and commercializing substantially identical products, services, or technologies, which could adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition. Furthermore, legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability, and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain, which may lead to increased costs and risks surrounding the prosecution, validity, ownership, enforcement, and defense of our issued patents, patent applications, and other intellectual property rights.

Valid patents may not be issued for our pending or future patent applications, and the claims allowed on any issued patents may not be sufficient to protect our technology or platform. Any issued patents that we have or may obtain may be challenged or circumvented, invalidated, or held unenforceable through administrative processes, including re-examination, inter partes review, interference and derivation proceedings, and equivalent proceedings in foreign jurisdictions (e.g., opposition proceedings) or litigation, and any rights granted under these patents may not actually provide adequate defensive protection or competitive advantages to us. In addition, there may be issued patents held by third parties of which we are not aware, that, if found to be valid and enforceable, could be alleged to be infringed by our current or future technologies or products. There may also be pending patent applications of which we are not aware that may result in issued patents, which could be alleged to be infringed by our current or future technologies or products. Patent applications in the United States are typically not published until at least 18 months after filing, or, in some cases, not at all, and publications of discoveries in industry-related literature lag behind actual discoveries. We cannot be certain that we were the first to make the inventions claimed in our pending patent applications or that we were the first to file for patent protection. Additionally, the process of obtaining patent protection is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner. Recent changes to patent laws in the United States may also bring into question the validity