Jim Ballsilie: “Canadians can innovate, but we’re not equipped to win” (theglobeandmail.com)

> Other legal measures might include creating a sovereign patent pool and a prior art library to help Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises when they encounter litigation threats.

Can anyone describe how this is different from the Canadian Patents Database [1]?

[1] http://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html