Specifically for our industry, very little of the information we have is protected by patents or other copyright.
The real question for us is, if you're bringing a new substance, and you provide data, etc. for the regulator, no one has any problem with.... The regulator should see all of that. The issue comes in if you're getting an approval for a new substance, and your competitor then rides on the information that you have had to undertake and pay for. There's usually a two- or three-year period when they are prohibited from using that data, but they can recreate their own data and submit. That's usually, in the case of our industry, what we're looking for.