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NEW CERTIFIED MEMBERS Original Document: Provides you with a complete original version of the patent. Use it to find whether there is an attached prior art search report for guidelines in your documentary research. You can also print or save a copy of the document for offline searching and archiving. (This feature is particularly useful if your client did not provide you with an original copy of the source text.) Abstracts are provided in at least one of the EPO official languages, along with the national filing language if it is different. So, you might find valuable information on the original document that will help you throughout the translation. Cited Documents: Provides a list of all the documents cited either during any procedures of the EPO patent review process (e.g., search, examination, opposition, limitation, revocation, or appeal), or by the applicant. This list appears as a new hyperlinked list of Espacenet search results. This search is very useful for finding additional related patents for use as model translations or sources of documentation, especially if one happens to be written in the target language. It also saves you the trouble of hunting for citations inside the original document. Citing Documents: Provides a list of all the other patents or applications citing the particular patent on which you are working. This list appears as a new hyperlinked list of Espacenet search results. This search is also very useful for finding additional related patents for use as models or documentary information, especially when the citing patents are in the target language. International Patent Documentation (INPADOC) Legal Status: Provides you with worldwide legal status data on the events occurring during the life cycle of a patent application, retrieved from 40 different national patent offices. For example, you can find the countries in which your patent will be covered, one of which might be English-speaking. Or you might find a patent application examination report with specific requests for modification, one of which might be of particular linguistic relevance. www.atanet.org International Patent Documentation (INPADOC) Patent Family: Returns a new list of hyperlinked Espacenet search results with the entire series of patents connected to a specific patent. This is a potentially valuable source of models and documentary information to assist you with understanding the invention or finding specific patentrelated terminology. A Great Resource for Patent Translators Congratulations! The following members have successfully passed ATA's certification exam: English into Spanish Maria J. Castano Miami, FL Beyond the vastness of the content available on the EPO website, the ability to search for information in three languages is enough to place it on a translator's preferred list of patent resource search tools. Just toggling from one language to another will provide all translators with an amazingly consistent and user-friendly experience, complete with official translation and links to additional documentation. The ability to search for information on patents in English, German, and French may not have been designed specifically to address patent translation processes, but this hardly matters. There are countless uses to which the EPO website, and the available functions of the left Espacenet toolbar, may be put to facilitate patent translation tasks. Just click on the links to try them yourself the next time you are translating a patent and visiting the EPO website!  Federico Fuentes NOTES 1 European Patent Convention, http://bit.ly/European-Patent-Convention. Petit-Bourg, France 2 Popp, Bruce. "Using Patents to Find the Terminology You Need," The ATA Chronicle (May 2009), 16-23, http://bit.ly/Popp-Chronicle. Also see: Vitek, Steve. "Internet Resources for the Translation of Patents into English," In The Patent Translator's Handbook Spring, TX Veronica C. Hermida Mexico City, Mexico Adriana Pruneda Hernández Mexico City, Mexico Sonia Verjovsky Cuernavaca, Mexico Arabic into English Christine J. Cuk Hamilton, Ontario, Canada French into English May Fung Danis Susan E. Kronenfeld Oakville, Ontario, Canada German into English Ted R. Wozniak New Orleans, LA (American Translators Association, 2007), 41-48. Françoise Herrmann is an adjunct faculty member at the New York University School of Professional Studies, where she teaches medical and patent translation. She is also a freelance translator and interpreter working in Bay Area hospitals and for the San Francisco Unified School district. She writes two blogs (one in English, and one in French): Patents on the soles of your shoes and Billets techniques TRADMED. Contact: fh35@nyu.edu. Portuguese into English Alexander F. Watson Dulles, VA Spanish into English Patrick B. Weill Carmichael, CA American Translators Association 33 http://www.bit.ly/European-Patent-Convention http://www.bit.ly/Popp-Chronicle http://www.atanet.org

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