Sure. Certainly when we deal with companies on the investment side, that's exactly it: the investors want to see what you're doing to protect yourselves and build for the future. It's a chess game. They want to see what you're doing now and what you're going to be doing 10 years from now.
I think that's where the importance of IP is, whether on the front end, as in the first patent program—get your first patent in place so you can show the investors you're taking those steps—or on the commercialization end, which improves the R and D side too. If companies know they can commercialize their product, their process, in a country at a preferred tax rate, they are more inclined to apply for intellectual property protection in that country—for example, in Canada. It works at both ends, the front end of obtaining your patent protection and the back end of commercializing it. The investors see that you're building for the future. They see that this is a company they want to be a part of, because it's not just one country; you have to think, “Where's next? What's the next opportunity?” Most IP is jurisdictionally based, and that's what the investors want to see—that you're taking the steps to build for today and the next 10 or 20 years.