Language policy evaluation for the European Union patent system : looking for a new strategy

Diplôme Master Language policy evaluation for the European Union patent system : looking for a new strategy eng 2011 author Volpe Alessia 643890 director Grin François 0000-0002-0435-7547 29947 Major economic changes, technology and information revolutions have raised the need for structural reforms of patent systems worldwide. Such reforms are all the more urgent in Europe where the fragmentation of the technology market has been damaging competitiveness. The lack of consensus on the issue of language policy has been recognised as one of the main obstacles on the route to a unified patent system. Opting for some EU languages over others entails an asymmetric distribution of costs of patenting between European companies, this, in turn, distorts competition in the Single Market. Considering the importance of patent literature in a knowledge-based economy, we decided to explore the issue of translation of patent information. We believe that translation has a democratising impact on dissemination of patent information on condition that it departs from the current translation regime to embody a more dynamic nature inspired by the activity of strategic multilingual monitoring. Dewey 418.02 Master universitaire en traduction mention traduction spécialisée 111 Département de traduction 91 false a71c2126-d2f2-49cf-a58d-0304d5f4a04b Master thesis Public VOLPE_MémoireJuillet2011Format2.pdf 1256827 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traduction

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