This is just a small change related to what we were talking about earlier. Patent and trademark agents have privilege, similar to solicitor-client privilege, as we indicated. However, there are patent and trademark agents in the Government of Canada who provide assistance in the patenting and trademarking of government technology.
This just amends the Access to Information Act to ensure that they too will benefit from the privilege and that government inventions will not be unduly disclosed when the information is transferred to a patent and trademark agent.