Company: RSI
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001793659-25-000047
Chunk: 98

Company: Rush Street Interactive, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 98
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), our competitors come from two main groups – (i) established online-first companies and (ii) bricks-and-mortar casino and similar gaming establishments that have online operations. 

We compete on a number of factors across our B2C offerings. These include, without limitation, our front-end online gaming platform, our back-end infrastructure, our ability to retain and monetize existing customers, re-engage prior customers and attract new customers, and our regulatory access, compliance and customer service experience.

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In the B2B space, primarily in the retail sportsbook market, our competitors include, without limitation, providers of gaming technology such as player account management and online betting and/or gaming platforms. We compete primarily on the quality and breadth of our technology solutions and support services.

Intellectual Property

Our business relies significantly on the creation, authorship, development, use and protection of intellectual property. This intellectual property consists of, for example, software code, proprietary technology, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, patents, customer lists and databases and trade secrets that we use to develop and provide our offerings and related services, as well as online betting and gaming content (both proprietary and licensed) and proprietary data acquired from our customers’ use of our offerings and related services.

We own the copyrights in the software code we author. In the past we have filed patent applications, and from time to time, we may seek patent protection covering inventions we conceive, and we generally pursue the registration of our domain names, trademarks and service marks in the United States and in certain foreign jurisdictions.

We rely on common law rights or contractual restrictions to protect certain of our intellectual property rights, and we control access to our software source code and other trade secrets by entering into confidentiality and intellectual property assignment agreements with our employees and contractors and confidentiality agreements with third parties that have access to our software source code, trade secrets or other intellectual property. From time to time, we may assert our rights in our intellectual property as appropriate or desirable against third parties who may be infringing such rights.

Some of the intellectual property we use is owned by affiliated entities or third parties, and we have entered into licenses and other agreements with the relevant parties to obtain rights to use such intellectual property. Although we believe we have sufficient rights under such agreements for the intended operation of our business, such agreements often restrict our use of the third parties’ intellectual property and limit such use to specific time periods, jurisdictions or purposes.

RSG, an affiliated entity, and its affiliates assigned to us several of the trademarks and domain names