Seven new languages added to the Euopean Patent Office’s (EPO’s) Patent Translate service

The European Patent Office (EPO) has now made available a second set of European languages in its free automatic translation service Patent Translate. With the addition of Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian and Polish, the service now enables translation from, and into, English for thirteen languages and is accessible on the EPO’s free online patent database, Espacenet.

Just one word of warning though – in our experience these automated translations can sometimes be very hard to decipher!