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The European Patent Office (EPO) held a meeting of the SACEPO Working Party on Guidelines on April 25, 2024. SACEPO means a Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO. The newly appointed members discussed feedback from a public consultation on the EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines, including suggestions for the upcoming Unitary Patent (UP) Guidelines.
The consultation gathered 168 comments on the EPC Guidelines and 23 on the PCT-EPO Guidelines. Discussions covered various topics, such as handling AI and computer-related inventions, third-party observations, and expediting patent approvals.
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A recent paper by researchers from several European universities unveiled the HPLT (High Performance Language Technologies) dataset for language modeling and machine translation. This dataset incorporates monolingual and bilingual corpora sourced from web crawls by the Internet Archive and CommonCrawl, a first at this scale.
According to the team, these resources are among the largest open text corpora ever released, providing invaluable material for language modeling and machine translation training.
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Google has recently announced the discontinuation of the Contribute feature for Google Translate, a tool that allowed users to suggest translations to improve the platform's quality. This decision comes as Google Translate has made significant advancements in recent years, largely attributed to the evolution of its underlying systems.
Launched in 2014, the Contribute feature aimed to harness the expertise of language enthusiasts and native speakers to enhance translations across the 80 languages supported by Google Translate.
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In the realm of patent translation, time is precious, and precision is paramount. CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) Tools allow translation service providers to optimize the process, ensuring swift, accurate, and cost-effective translations for their clients.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has updated its guidelines for patent examiners and applicants regarding obviousness under 35 USC § 103. Effective February 27, 2024, the new Guidelines stress the need for flexibility and reasoned explanations when assessing the obviousness of claimed inventions.
The updated Guidelines move away from a sole focus on identifying the best prior art during examination and instead emphasize the effective gathering and presentation of evidence to establish obviousness. The new Guidelines incorporates references to key patent cases and review Federal Circuit cases related to combining elements from different references and defining analogous art.
