American Well Corp 10-Q

Item 1. Legal Proceedings From time to time, we may become involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of our business. We are not presently a party to any legal proceedings that, in the opinion of our management, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. Regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us due to defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, negative publicity, reputational harm and other factors. On September 14, 2020, we received a letter from Teladoc Health, Inc. alleging that certain of our cart products and associated peripherals infringe upon their patents. On October 12, 2020, Teladoc Health, Inc filed a claim against the Company related to these allegations. While we can provide no guarantees about the outcome of this dispute, we believe that these claims lack merit and we intend to defend against them vigorously. Moreover, even if we were found to infringe upon any valid claim of these patents, our revenues from the Carepoints products approximated 6% of our revenues in 2020. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Intellectual Property— Third parties may challenge the validity of our patents and trademarks, or oppose our patent and trademark applications. We may not be able to obtain and enforce additional patents to protect our proprietary rights from use by potential competitors. Companies with other patents could require us to stop using or pay to use required technology” and “Item 1A. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Intellectual Property— We could incur substantial costs as a result of any claim of infringement of another party’s intellectual property rights” in our Form 10-K.