The Filing Surge Is Making This Problem Bigger, Not Smaller Global patent activity isn't slowing down long enough for translation shortcuts to go unnoticed. WIPO's most recent data shows that international patent applications filed through the PCT reached about...
Picture a procurement director reviewing a freshly translated supply agreement. The English reads smoothly, the formatting is clean, and the turnaround took eleven minutes instead of eleven days. Everyone signs off. Eighteen months later, a dispute erupts over a...
A single word decided the fate of an entire patent family. That's not a hypothetical — it's what happened when the Opposition and Appeal Division reviewed European patent EP1397304B1, where a term originally meaning "circular" in the source language was rendered as...