The European Patent Office and US company Google have launched a free online translation tool for patent documents. The service, Patent Translate, will not only save money on manual translation, but may also save years of work for inventors who research prior art, EPO president Benoît Battistelli said in Brussels on 29 February. The tool translates documents to and from English for French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, covering about 90 per cent of all patents issued in Europe.
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