Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I want to thank our guests for joining us today.
I'm relatively new to the committee—reassigned, I guess you'd say. This is my third, maybe fourth, meeting on the patent issue.
I'm going to ask a question of Mr. Lumb. I'll just tell you what my view is thus far. From what I'm hearing from all the organizations, the patent system could use some tweaking, but it's not so bad that it's.... It's not a panacea for problem-solving.
One of the issues I've had over the years, not just now, is that I'm not sure we do a good job of producing entrepreneurs, those who are developing IP. It's no good having IP protection if you don't have any IP to protect.
My question to.... I think he's an engineer. Are you an engineer?