A patent claim that reads beautifully in a chat window can still be legally worthless the moment a Korean examiner opens the file. That gap — between "this sounds fine" and "this holds up under Article 42 scrutiny" — is where a lot of enterprise IP budgets quietly...
A single conjunction cost a company its entire patent claim. Not a missing paragraph, not a botched technical drawing — one three-letter word, swapped by a machine translation engine that had no idea what it had just done. If that sounds like an outlier, it isn't....
Patent attorneys keep asking the wrong question. The question isn't "machine translation or human translation" — that framing was already outdated by the time most firms started asking it. The real question is which category a document falls into before a single word...