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Martin Cross on the subject of patent and evidentiary translation
The formal statement of conservation of lexemes, published by the American Translators Association.
Read the chapter →Written with patent attorney Bruce C. Hamburg. The translation questions that arise in prosecution, for a legal readership.
Read →A translation policy for patent work, with a section on litigation, for the telecommunications bar.
Read →Where translation risk enters a patent, and what to do about it before it costs you.
Read →What makes a translation hold up as evidence when the other side is looking for a reason to throw it out.
Read →Protecting yourself and your client when a translation becomes an exhibit.
Read →The different jobs a patent translation is asked to do, and why they are not the same job.
Read →Selected by the Chronicle for its "Blog Trekker" column: on getting a second opinion, the way a doctor would.
Read →New York. Fifty slides on moving into patent work.
View slides →A first map of the field, in thirty-four slides.
View slides →Arlington. Where conservation of lexemes was first presented in public.
View slides →A four-week course on patent translation, Training for Translators.
Read →The word-a-day ceiling, and why a rushed job goes to the least busy translator.
Read →The nuts and bolts of translating for the courts.
Read →Singular and plural in Asian-language patents, and the claims that turn on it.
Read →Six ways machine translation fails, with a worked Japanese-to-English example.
Read →Foreign applicants and their agents use translation quality as a proxy for attorney judgment.
Read →Commissioning a replacement translation to challenge one already in the record.
Read →Impact times vulnerability, and how to question a translator before you rely on one.
Read →How an attorney who reads no Japanese can spot an unreliable translation.
Read →In evidentiary translation the usual freedoms do not apply.
Read →How "smoothing" a translation can quietly narrow a claim. The "corrugated patterns" case.
Read →Translation is not a matter of opinion. The answer to the objection opposing counsel always raises.
Read →A joint presentation with Masa Kajiki of Osaka, at the IJET conference in Seattle, on moving beyond translation for information.
Read →An answer, in public, to the letter that arrives several times a year: how does one become a patent translator?
Read →On waiting for the tool that would do for translation what the word processor did for typing. Still waiting.
Read →Managing Intellectual Property reports a machine translation breakthrough.
Read →Machine translation improving, but not there yet.
Read →Attorneys once ordered complete translations 97 percent of the time. That has started to change, and for good reason.
Read →The bookshelf-copying analogy for reproducing a flawed original faithfully.
Read →Two translators, one priority document, and a published USPTO translation that turned out to be inconsistent with itself.
Read →The Wikipedia article on Japanese patent law is better than it has any right to be.
Read →Translating briefs, petitions and opinions for a patent trial being conducted in Japanese, for the English speakers who have to keep up.
Read →A busy translator's work, a worked Japanese example, and a rendering that described a different invention altogether.
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