Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 171

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 171
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 appropriate protection for all of our branding rights in selected jurisdictions or that third parties will not infringe upon or misappropriate our trademarks and brand names. When we update a brand name or logo or when we enter a new territory, we may decide to submit new trademark applications, but there is no guarantee that a new name or logo, or the PlusAI marks in a new territory can be successfully registered where we do not have existing registration for those or similar trademarks. In addition, effective trademark protection may be unavailable or limited for some of our trademarks in some foreign countries in which we operate. Third parties may also oppose our trademark applications, or otherwise challenge our use of the trademarks. In the event that our trademarks are successfully challenged, we could be forced to rebrand our services, which could result in loss of brand recognition, and could require us to devote resources advertising and marketing new brands.

We cannot assure you that third parties will not infringe our intellectual property rights or that we will have sufficient resources to enforce our rights. The protection against unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights, products and other proprietary rights is expensive and difficult, particularly internationally. Unauthorized parties may attempt to copy or reverse engineer our technology or certain aspects of our solutions that we consider proprietary. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce or defend our intellectual property rights, to prevent unauthorized parties from copying or reverse engineering our solutions, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others or to block the importation of infringing products into the United States.

Any such litigation, whether initiated by us or a third party, could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management’s attention, either of which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Any litigation to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits, including attacks on the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property, which could lead to the invalidation of, or render unenforceable, our intellectual property rights, or may otherwise have negative consequences for us. Even if we obtain favorable outcomes in litigation, we may not be able to obtain adequate remedies, especially in the context of unauthorized parties copying or reverse engineering our solutions. In addition, many of our current and potential competitors have the ability to dedicate substantially greater resources to defending intellectual property rights infringement claims and to enforcing their intellectual property rights than we have.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights if we are unable to enforce them or if we do not detect infringement or misappropriation