Google to Translate European Patents as EU-Level Effort Stalls
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Google Inc. plans to translate more than a million patent documents for the European Patent Office, potentially helping efforts to create a region-wide system to protect intellectual property.
The owner of the world’s largest search engine will work on translating about 1.5 million patent documents in 29 languages on behalf of the Munich-based EPO which covers 38 European countries, they announced today in Paris. The deal will give Google, whose Google Translate service struggles with highly technical language, a rich source of material on which to attempt improvements, they said.