The European Patent Office (EPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO) launched, on 6 December, the Chinese-English component of the EPO's free automatic translation service Patent Translate. As a result, the collections of the two largest languages in patents are now united as full-text documents on the same website through the EPO's global patent database, Espacenet, and linguistically accessible for innovators from both regions using a single tool, Patent Translate.
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