Company: AEMD
Filing Date: 2025-06-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001683168-25-004780
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Company: AETHLON MEDICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 a form that is advantageous to us. Proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or foreign offices could result in
adverse decisions as to the priority of our inventions and the narrowing or invalidation of claims in issued patents. The laws of some
foreign countries may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the U.S., if at all. Some of our
patents may expire before we receive FDA approval to market our products in the United States or we receive approval to market our products
in a foreign country. Although we believe that certain patent applications and/or other patents issued more recently will help protect
the proprietary nature of the Hemopurifier treatment technology, this protection may not be sufficient to protect us during the development
of that technology.

Our competitors may successfully
challenge and invalidate or render unenforceable our issued patents, including any patents that may issue in the future, which could prevent
or limit our ability to market our products and could limit our ability to stop competitors from marketing products that are substantially
equivalent to ours. In addition, competitors may be able to design around our patents or develop products that provide outcomes that are
comparable to our products but that are not covered by our patents.

We have also entered into
confidentiality and assignment of intellectual property agreements with all of our employees, consultants and advisors directly involved
in the development of our technology as one of the ways we seek to protect our intellectual property and other proprietary technology.
However, these agreements may not be enforceable or may not provide meaningful protection for our trade secrets or other proprietary information
in the event of unauthorized use or disclosure or other breaches of the agreements.

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In the event a competitor
infringes upon any of our patents or other intellectual property rights, enforcing our rights may be difficult, time consuming and expensive,
and would divert management’s attention from managing our business. We may not be successful on the merits in any enforcement effort.
In addition, we may not have sufficient resources to litigate, enforce or defend our intellectual property rights.

We may rely on licenses for new technology,
which may affect our continued operations with respect thereto.

As we develop our technology,
we may need to license additional technologies to optimize the performance of our products. We may not be able to license these technologies
on commercially reasonable terms or at all. In addition, we may fail to successfully integrate any licensed technology into our proposed
products. Our inability to obtain any necessary licenses could delay our