I want to add that because of the international aspect of disputes there is one failing in our system where Canadians are disadvantaged when they go into litigation, for example, in the United States. Communications between clients and their patent or trademark agents are not protected from disclosure in courts, while in the U.S. or other countries they are.
When they go into litigation in the United States--and this has happened to French companies and other companies--they're put at a disadvantage. There's a simple solution, a correction to the Patent Act and to the Trade-marks Act to rectify that so that they're on a level playing ground.