Every patent counsel who has watched a large language model spit out a flawless-looking claim translation in under ten seconds has asked the same question at least once this year: do we still need a human patent translator on this filing? 🤔 The honest answer sitting...
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...