1 December 2010Jurisdiction reportsMarianne Holme

The language barrier when searching and understanding prior art

On September 4, the EPO and the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) signed a mutual agreement in order to make China’s prior art documentation more easily available for patent searching by building improved English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries to be used for machine translation.

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