Human Translation or Machine Translation: Best Option For Patent Application

Human Translation or Machine Translation? Which Option is Better?

The general conception (or misconception) among the patent applicants is that the machine translation is better than human translation. Patent translation is the basic instrument for understanding patents, applications and other relevant prior art in different languages from different regions. You need to be certain about the translation when you are researching and distinguishing your[…]

Preventive Measures for Patent Translation Challenges

Patent translation comprises the translation of special language texts which associate with patent language. However, there are different Patent Translation Challenges that come along with it. Here, translation doesn’t simply mean to translate the content within the patent application from one language to another. There are a number of factors that make this piece of[…]

Quality of Patent Technical Translation: Why & How It Matters?

Patent Technical Translation or non-literary translation refers to the translation performed on technical subject matters. Adding the word ‘technical’, with ‘translation’, increases its credibility and behind the scene efforts in the market. One must be entirely focused, experienced, and technical subject expert to perform this job; otherwise, any minute mistake can change the sense of[…]

Fundamentals of Translation Memory

As the term describes, translation memory can be thought of as, ‘Memory or data saved from previous translations’. Translation memory functions as a set of a database that stores previously translated segments with their source segments, in the form of translation units, to make future translations much easier and faster. It is one utility of[…]

WIPO Develops a Machine Translation Tool! But, Manual Patent Translation is always Better Decision.

Patents are technical and scientific documents and thus are complex in nature. A single error can change the whole meaning of your idea hence it is important for patent search professionals to maintain the accuracy of these documents. All we can say is that patents are complex in nature and translating them is even more[…]

Bad Quality Patent Translation Can Bring Loss of Millions!

A patent is an exclusive right issued for an invention which is either a process, or the machine, or a product, or composition of matter. Currently, there are about two million patent applications documented across the globe and the increasing demand puts an extra pressure on translation experts to meet the supply demand of the[…]