Case Study: World’s Largest Network achieves faster, more effective IP and prior-art discovery with RWS

Harnessing the power of the Crowd for faster, more effective intellectual property research results

RWS CrowdSearch helps organizations protect, defend and monetize their patents by solving difficult IP research challenges that traditional approaches struggle with — from niche prior‑art and hard‑to‑find physical evidence to global product mapping, patent stress‑testing and rapid scaling for large litigations. Clients come with problems like obscure or multilingual sources, tight timelines and the need to validate or invalidate patents without excessive cost or risk.

RWS pairs experienced in‑house analysts with a 40,000‑member Crowd across 170 countries and 140 languages to uncover evidence quickly and at scale. That hybrid approach has recovered millions in licensing revenue, removed litigation threats, located rare physical products and obscure prior art, delivered three‑times‑better mapping results for a telecom client, and completed large fixed‑price programs on deadline — often becoming the client’s preferred research partner.