Overcoming Language Barriers in Patent Research: A LexisNexis® White Paper

This is especially significant when it comes to the international effort to protect intellectual property. How can U.S.–based companies effectively assert or enforce IP rights, for example, if they are unable to accurately determine which patents are on file in a foreign jurisdiction that operates with a language other than English—or, for that matter, uses an entirely different alphabet? What good does it do a legal professional in the U.S. to ascertain all of the English-language patent records in Asian countries if he or she is unable to determine the meaning of patent records from China that are entirely composed in Mandarin Chinese?