IPH Limited (IPH) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the IPH limited half-year 2026 results presentation. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, you will need to press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Dr. Andrew Blattman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you. Good morning and welcome to the IPH results presentation for the half year ended 31 December 2025. My name is Andrew Gladman and I am CEO and Managing Director of IPH. With me today is Brendan York, our CFO. Thank you for joining us for today's presentation and your interest in IPH. Before we get started, I'd like to thank the broader IPH team across all our regions for their efforts and contribution to our results for first half FY26. In terms of how we'll play it today, I'll provide an overview of the operational strategic highlights. Brendan will discuss the financial results in detail. I'll then provide an update on the performance of our three segments, Canada, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, before concluding with a summary of our priorities for the full year. As always, we're very happy to answer your questions at the end. So moving to slide three about IPH, a quick reminder of the continued growth in the diversity and scale of IPH. We have seven brands and over 1,700 employees servicing some 26 IP jurisdictions. We are the number one patent group in Australia, in Canada, Singapore and New Zealand. More recently, we were informed by the Indonesian Patent Office that we are the number one filer in our country, a testament to the strength of our network across the Asian region. And I'm told ...