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Information blog and website beSpacific reports that the  EPO (European PatentOffice) and SIPO (State Intellectual Property

Office of the People's Republic of China) have launched a  Chinese-English machine translation  for patents

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/032067.html#032067

PR "Breaking new ground in providing access to the most comprehensive technological information, the European Patent

Office (EPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO) today launched the

Chinese-English component of the EPO's free automatic translation service Patent Translate. As a result, the collections

of the two largest languages in patents are now united as full-text documents on the same website through the EPO's global

patent database, Espacenet, and linguistically accessible for innovators from both regions using a single tool, Patent

Translate. Under the new arrangement with SIPO, Espacenet has grown by 4 million Chinese language documents,

adding to the 75 million documents already available."