Google’s Technology to Translate Patents, Aid Researchers
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Google Inc. translation software will translate existing patents to and from Chinese and 31 other languages, the company and the European Patent Office said.
Researchers will be able to check translations of millions of patents granted in European countries, China, Japan, Korea and Russia “to demonstrate that their invention is new and has not been already patented by somebody else,” Benoit Battistelli, the patent office’s president, told reporters.