Patent Translation Handbook
Table of Contents

Guest Foreword: Worldwide Patent Protection - How Will Translators Have To Meet the Changes by Bill Budinger

Preface by Gerry Gooding

1 Business of Patent Translation by Rob Sellin 1

2 U.S. Patent System by Gerry Gooding 8

3 The Patent System in Japan by James L. Davis 20

4 Translating Japanese Patents "For Information" by Jon Johanning 32

5 Japanese-to-English Translation of Patent Documents for Filing in the U.S. by William Lise 48

6 Chemical Patent Translation by 竹下常一 Tsuneichi Takeshita 86

7 Biomedical, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology Patents: Japanese to English Translation by Steve Sherman, M.D. 140

8 Translating Oppositions and Official Actions by Gerry Gooding 150

9 特許訴訟関連書類、翻訳及び通訳 by 唐木康子 Yasko Karaki 167

10 Patent Translation Information Sources by 森田依子 Yoriko Morita 181

11 Japanese-English Glossary of Patent Terminology by John F. Bukacek 195

Index 207