PATROLL, Unified Patents’ only Crowd Sourced Prior Art platform, has hit numerous milestones since being launched in 2018. So far in 2022, there have been 81 contests announced, versus 42 in 2021, and currently 34 active contests with $68,000 in total prizes. We are extremely happy to announce that over the last month, 29 contests have ended with over 170 total submissions, and nearly $30,000 paid to winning submissions. That averages nearly 6 submissions per contest.

Remarkably, 2022 has seen over 340 total submissions, only 83 shy of the 2021 record high total of 425.

With almost 60 contests in the final stages of review, it is expected that PATROLL will shatter every record in terms of total contests, total submissions per contest, and total prizes awarded in a calendar year. This would not be possible without the research and due diligence of our prior art vendors and the dozens and dozens of prior art searchers across the globe.