Thank you.
Thanks to the witnesses. It's been very interesting, primarily because like many Canadians, I assume, I know absolutely nothing about the patent process, other than what a patent basically is.
Mr. Georgaras, in your remarks at the start, you talked about foreign companies registering patents here and Canadian companies registering patents elsewhere. Can you give me a patent 101? If I were a company, what would I have to go through? Where do I register patents in order to be protected worldwide? What kind of foreign agreements are out there?
This is so I can get a basic lay of the land.