This is the point. I want to highlight how important confidentiality is to some of the countries here. China issued 1.58 million patents last year. The U.S. was second on the list with 503,000; Japan had 405,000.
Number four was the Republic of Korea with 272,315 patents. I would suggest, Mr. Chair, that our Korean partner LG cares about confidentiality and about keeping certain strategic information confidential. This is a country that is ranked number four in terms of patents. I already mentioned that, on batteries alone, LG has 24,000 patents. It is important to them, when they do business in a jurisdiction, that it's a jurisdiction that takes confidentiality seriously—and we do.
There are other considerations that we have to look at as well. What else is inside those contracts? It could be intellectual property. It could also be industrial design, industrial plans or blueprints. We don't know. It could be partners—