Translation For Lawyers

On August 21, 2007 the Patent and Trademark Office published "Changes To Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims, and Examination of Claims in Patent Applications” in Federal Register/ Vol. 72, No. 161.

When it comes to patent translations and to compliance with the U.S. Patent Law at large, you don’t want to gamble with your client’s need for professional foreign-language technical translations. You want to make sure that your client's application and other technical documents are translated by professional human translators, and not by mindless machines.

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In today's multilingual America bilingual individuals are occasionally selected to sit on a jury in civil, or and in criminal cases. In the course of the jury trial attorneys often need to present evidence, which exists in languages other than English. When taped-recorded conversations in a foreign language are part of the evidence, an English translation of the foreign language tape recording - referred to as the official English translation/ interpretation transcript - is provided to the jurors.

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