Company: WLTH
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0001628279-25-000486
Chunk: 89

Company: WEALTHFRONT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 89
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 or where we have employees or independent contractors. The loss of trade secret protection could make it easier for third parties to compete with our platform, product, and services by copying functionality. In addition, any changes in the trade secret, employment, and other intellectual property laws in any country in which we may potentially operate may compromise our ability to enforce our trade secrets and other intellectual property rights. The legal systems of certain foreign countries do not favor the enforcement of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and other intellectual property and proprietary protection, which could make it difficult for us to prevent or stop any infringement, misappropriation, dilution, or other violation of our intellectual property rights. If we fail to maintain, protect, and enhance our intellectual property rights, our brand, business, operating results, and financial condition may be harmed.

From time to time, legal action by us may be necessary to enforce our patents and other intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Protecting our intellectual property rights, both as a defendant and plaintiff, as applicable, through litigation in the United States and potentially internationally may entail significant time and expense. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could negatively affect our business, operating results, and financial condition. If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights, including aspects of our software and platform protected other than by patent rights, we will find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to others who need not incur the expense, time, and effort required to create our platform and other innovative products that have enabled us to be successful to date. Moreover, we may in the future need to expend additional resources to defend our intellectual property rights in foreign countries, and our inability to do so could impair our business.

Third parties have claimed, and may claim in the future, that aspects of our platform or website infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate their intellectual property rights and such claims could be time-consuming or costly to defend or settle, result in the loss of significant rights, or harm our relationships with our clients or reputation in the industry.

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to develop and commercialize our platform, products, and services without infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating the intellectual property rights of third parties. However, we may not be aware that aspects of our platform, products, or services are infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating third-party