There are also arguments that we could upgrade the antiquated databases of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office so that they could be searched more easily online. A lot of people say they can search online in the U.S. easily but cannot do it here.
Another thing that a lot of the entrepreneurs I have talked to said was that we should let third parties contest an application before a patent is granted, because it's a great way to weed out some of the bad apples. Israel, for example, publishes applications and allows people to contest them. Then they look at the bad ones a little more.
One way to do it faster is to try to weed out some of the bad ones that clog up the system in patent thickets.