Industry committee  Thank you very much for your question. We've recently, in fact, looked at automation for some of the repetitive elements of our process in order to provide information to applicants with respect to goods and services so that when they apply for a trademark, they have to define which goods they want to protect or which services they want to protect.

Industry committee  It's a fair assumption, combined with the COVID-19 situation and, indeed, the very high success of Canada following the accession to the treaties.

Industry committee  Thank you, Konstantinos. Thank you, sir, for the question. It does depend. We have seen a decrease now of 30 months on average for a response from the office with respect to overall domestic applications. We do have a number of streams. If the application is coming internationally, we have obligations under that system, as Konstantinos related to earlier.

Industry committee  With respect to the international ones, they do compare, because those are the obligations. With respect to domestic, we are seeing that here in Canada we're a bit slower. As Konstantinos mentioned, we are taking steps to address these issues. We have now peaked with respect to our inventory.

Industry committee  We are looking at sharing best practices with our international counterparts. Canada is slower than these jurisdictions, but we are looking at similar measures that they have put in place. We know we're on the right track, given the type of best practices we're sharing on this.

Industry committee  We were at about 15 to 16 months prior to joining the treaties, and then we had the surge that Konstantinos mentioned.