So the first one to claim intellectual property over it actually gets the intellectual property, not the first one to actually create it.

I'd say that's a very interesting thing because if you look at the history of inventing stuff, it's usually you could always find one or two or maybe even three people sort of inventing roughly the same thing at the same time 'cause it's always building on previous knowledge, and the knowledge base had gotten to the point where someone could say, "Ah," and take one more step into something new and unique.

And so you see people like who actually started doing radio telegraphy first, right? Who really started working with electricity first for lighting? All these kind of things, like yeah, we, we claim one person, but there was always somebody else in some other country that was pretty darn close at the same time because it, it's always an incremental step typically.

And so this first to file becomes really important because it's not who thought of the idea first, who did the first experiment, but who actually got together their paperwork fast enough to put it into the office to be able to claim it as theirs.

Mm-hmm.

But it has to be something particularly unique to get a patent for it.

Whereas a copyright, we'll see later on, has much more flexibility what you can copyright.

Design patents have to have something that still advances human knowledge.