I have been reading 10K's from these fabricators for years. Never have I seen this in one......Perhaps they are trying to tell us something. My guest it's CYA for the IG4.
"Our success and ability to compete will depend in part on the protection of our patents and other proprietary information. We currently have two patents issued and others in various stages of government review for our chemical detection technologies. We rely on non-disclosure agreements and patent and copyright laws to protect the intellectual property that we have developed and plan to develop.
However, such agreements and laws may provide insufficient protection. Moreover, other companies may develop products that are similar or superior to ours, or may copy or otherwise obtain and use our proprietary information without authorization. If a third party were to violate one or more of our patents, we may not have the resources to bring suit or otherwise protect the intellectual property underlying the patent.
In the event of such a violation or if a third party appropriated any of our unpatented technology, such party may develop and market products that we intend to develop and/or market. We would lose any revenues that we would otherwise have received from the sale or licensing of those products. This could prevent our ever making a profit on any products based upon the misappropriated technology.
Policing unauthorized use of our proprietary and other intellectual property rights could entail significant expense and could be difficult or impossible.
In addition, third parties may bring claims of copyright or trademark infringement against CDEX or claim that certain of our processes or features violate a patent, that we have misappropriated their technology or formats or otherwise infringed upon their proprietary rights.
Any claims of infringement, with or without merit, could be time consuming to defend, result in costly litigation, divert management attention, and/or require CDEX to enter into costly royalty or licensing arrangements to prevent further infringement, any of which could increase our operating expenses and thus prevent us from becoming profitable.
Our competitive position also depends upon unpatented trade secrets. Trade secrets are difficult to protect. Our competitors may independently develop proprietary information and techniques that are substantially equivalent to ours or otherwise gain access to our trade secrets, such as through unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of our trade secrets. If this occurs, our competitors may use our processes or techniques to develop competing products and bring them to market ahead of us.
This could prevent us from becoming profitable. "
NOW THAT'S FORWARD THINKING!
AI
