SciTech ATA webinar for patent translators

To be patentable, an invention must be new. A frequent consequence of this is that the terminology used in a patent application that needs to be translated may also be new and poorly covered in secondary terminology resources such as online terminology databases, glossaries and dictionaries. Faced with this situation, a patent translator may need to identify and use primary sources and do their own research to align terminology in the source and target languages.

This webinar discusses some techniques for searching primary sources for subject matter terminology needed when translating patent applications. Related patents originally drafted in the target language are particularly valuable primary sources. I will discuss bibliographic techniques for finding them. I will also cover techniques for dealing with chemical compound names and names of mechanical parts.