Thank you for your question, Mr. Cannings.
In the case of business process innovation, there's a lot of it that doesn't deserve to be patentable. It's best protected through a contract or a licence. You can license the process to other organizations. This can happen from a non-profit or a for-profit.
If we speak specifically about the tech sector, where I have years of experience as well, for much of the code that goes into games, technologies and that sort of thing, if you release a patent, you have to release the code, and then it's significantly difficult to litigate to protect that and prove that someone is actually copying your code. It's a huge process.
A better strategy for many tech companies is to just protect it through trade secrets, which means licensing, contracts and that kind of thing. Putting it into a patent is a actually highly risky. I think there's a lot of discussion around the IP sphere to get more patents, but there are a lot of companies that don't want to do that. We need to be focused on making sure that the rest of the protection is included in this strategy.