Last week MultiLing attended the IQPC Global Patent Congress in Copenhagen for the first time. This international event adressed the key challenges and problems facing patent professionals today whilst providing unrivalled networking opportunities.

Attracting senior level patent professionals interested in learning new ways to address their biggest challenges the Global Patent Congress has developed a reputation for excellence around the world. Since 2006 over 400 people have attended the Global Patent Congress and benefitted from the knowledge driven content and innovative case studies.

MultiLing CEO Michael Sneddon delivered a speech titled: “High Quality, Cost Effective Linguistics Solutions For Global Patent Filings”.… [Continue reading]

Since 2009, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) offers the Peer To Patent project – a historic initiative that opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time. Peer to Patent is an online system that aims to improve the quality of issued patents by enabling the public to supply the USPTO with information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications.… [Continue reading]

For the uninitiated, finding translators sounds easy. Often, inexperienced company executives just entering the international market talk about translating as if it were simple a skill requiring little more than bilingual literacy. In fact, it is much more than that. In a recent article in World Intellectual Property Review, MultiLing CEO Michael Sneddon and translation expert Heide Ruplinger explain why good translation is so important in the patent industry.… [Continue reading]