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| Item 8.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On August 12, 2025, Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing that Advent Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Advent Sub”) finalized a partially exclusive field-of-use patent license agreement with TRIAD National Security with respect to the Ion Pair technology originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (the “Agreement”), which Agreement supersedes a prior license agreement between the parties. Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Advent Sub acquired exclusivity to the technology in the marine, aviation, and portable power fields while retaining its non-exclusive rights in all other fields.
The foregoing description of the Press Release does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Press Release attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
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| 99.1 | Press Release dated August 12, 2025 | |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Dated: August 12, 2025
| Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Gary Herman | |
| Name: | Gary Herman | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
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