As I mentioned earlier, for us, the client is not the economy. There are three or more roles for the federal government in supporting research. Obviously one is economic benefit. Another one is to improve the quality of decision-making within government. For us, that's the primary reason we do our research, but we try to capitalize on opportunities. So, yes, we patent, and then we have licensees. We have licensees, for example, for sediment remediation, but also for technologies we've developed for groundwater purification. We rely on the private sector to do that, and we protect them by protecting the technology so that their investments will be protected.
On June 3rd, 2008. See this statement in context.