Thank you for the question.
Indeed, for this particular number here, we do rely on the World Intellectual Property Organization to provide the figures. We do know well the number of patents within Canada. It's difficult to track how many Canadians are applying outside. So the World Intellectual Property Organization does survey all other intellectual property offices and provides this number.
These are the number of grants that are currently in force. There is some double-counting that is going on here. So there are some numbers that identify both a patent within Canada and a patent abroad, but they are indeed the same patent, the same idea. There is subsequent work that the World Intellectual Property Organization is doing to help eliminate this double-counting, and that information is available.