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EU Patents Google Translation News and One Important Problem I found

Mustafa Umut Sarac

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I read google and eu patent databases made a agreement to translate the patents online from one eu language to other. Thats a good story.

I tried to enter german patent database but I only could be able to translate the abstract.

Am I doing something wrong or is google translation only for short abstracts ?

umut
 
That doesn't surprise me. It's a shame but...
 
I got idea of that agreement or the result of it.
But if it does not work automatically, use the standard translation feature of Google, it can't be worse than something built into a patent-search.
 
Is there a particular patent you are looking for? If it's a fairly new patent, then there's a good chance that this patent also exists in some European Patent version, and quite likely in English language form.

But yes, I do agree with your statement that US patents are much easier to search through and to look at than European patents, not just because of possibly language barriers. God forbid you want to read a Japanese patent ...
 
なぜですか。 難しい日本語はあなたのためルディですか。
Ρων, είναι εύκολο να μεταφράσεις σελίδες από άλλες γλώσσες, αλλά είναι δύσκολο να αναζητήσετε λέξεις-κλειδιά
 
I'm not so sure of that. Japanese for one example uses English or German words for most chemical information. For example, they use Kali for Kalium (Potassium) and etc. But then, I am forgetting so much of my foreign language vocabulary that anything is difficult for me.

PE