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PATENT TERMS IN SOME LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH NELLIE M. PAYNE American Cyanamid Company, Stamford, Connecticut
Tm PRESENT world-wide development of chemistry has enormously increased the difficulties of the abstracter and reader of chemical literature. At the present time development of chemical industry is approaching a world-wide distribution. With such increase will also go an increase in patents issued in various countries and in various languages. At the present time there is a release of material published from Europe during the war period which also increases language difficulties. The necessity for linguistic equipment appears to be increasing, rather than decreasing, for both the abstracter and the reader of scientific literature. It is necessary, moreover, to develop a special vocabulary for the patent field. Some countries publish a form patent modeled on the German pattern with its three dates; namely, those of application, grant, and issue. Others follow a system
somewhat like the American system with only the date of application and the date of issue given. Although patents are laid open for inspeetion in most European countries for purposes of opposition (France and Spain are exceptions), the date of such action does not appear on the face of the patent except in the case of Holland and Great Britain. Thoso countries which follow the German type of patent specification and claim in general separate the technically new material in the claim from the old material by a characteristic expression which may be approximately translated into English as "characterized in that." The effective date of a patent differs according to the individual law of the granting nation. I n some countries the patent may be considered to run from the date of application, in others from the date of issuance, and in the case of Great Britain, from the date of seal.
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In this last case the date of seal does not usually appear on the face of the patent. In Germany the term of the patent begins with the day following the date of filing of application. The technicalities of patent law are not the subject of this paper hut the possibility of determining patent dates for the purposes of identifica-
tion and comparison of patents issued in different countries for a given field of subject matter. The purpose of this work is to make patent terms in several of the chief languages of Europe available for reference. For typographical reasons terms in the Slavic group are limited to those printed in Roman script.
TABLE OF LINGUISTIC EQUIVALENTS FOR PATENT TERMS Geman Inventor Filing date Granted .
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Gwnuanic Langunges Danish
Dutch
Norse
Swedish
Erfinder Uitvinder Uppfinner Uppfinner Patientiert vom-ab Artnvrageingrediend Psttider ]$her fra fra or vom* udstedt Erteilt Tae der Ber- Daeteekenine .. . ..
Uppfinnare frin (followed date)
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by
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iiber die Erteiiung open' for public (Does not appear on Openbsm gemacht (Docs not appottr on (Does not appear on (Does not appear on face of the patent) face of the patent) msp. face of the patent) fscc of the patent) Issued Ausgegeben Uitgegeven Offcntliggjort Offentliggjort Publicerat Offentliggord "Characterized dadurcb gekenn- met bet kenmerk Kendetegnet ved Karaketrisert ved Kannetechnat darav in that" zeicbnet Example Beispiel Voorbeeld Eksempel Eksempel Eksempel Priority Priorit&t Voorrang van (fol- Fortrinset paaker- fra (country) Prioritet begird frPn lowed by date) aaht fre. Claim(s) Pstentansprucli Conclusie Patentkrav Patentpbtander Patentamp~ik Patentsurik Romance Languages
Inventor Assignee Filing date Granted Issued "Characterized in that" Example Priority Claim(s)
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Invention (Name of assignee given) Demand6 DBlivr6 Publi6 (not used) Exemple Domande de brevet dkpose6 (followed by eountry) RBsumet
Inventor tilulsr cesionaria. Salieitud (Presentado) Deferidof concedido (not used) Ejemplo Prioridad
Inventor concessionhio Pedido Deferido coneedida (not used) Exemplo Prioridade
Reivindioaoion(es)
Revindioa@(es)
Italian Inventore Deposito
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Rilasoiato osraterviiezato por pelo Esempio con priorita Rivendicszion(i)
Slavic L a n g u a g e - . Czech Croatian
Polish Inventor Filing date Granted Issued 'Characterized in that" Example Priority
Wynalazca * Zglosaono Udzielono Wydrtnit~ Znemienny tim Prayklad Pierwszknstwo
Claim(s)
Zast,rezezenia. patentowe
January February March April May June July August September October November December
Stycz6n Luty Mitrzec Kuieded Maj Cserwiee Lipiee Sierpieri Wrzesied Paddziernik Listopad Grudzied
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Vynz4lezce Piibl&Seuo Chfmeno Vydano Vyznareny tim Ptiklad (date foliadano o prioritu z lows) Pridavokvy patent
Isumitelj, prbea~azac Prijava VaBi Iedan Nsanden time Primer N a z e d e n o pravo prvenstva. od (date follows)
Patent6vy n&rok
~ a t e n t neahtev i (i)
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NAMESOF MONTHS' Leden trnor BEezen Duben Kveten, Mbj Cerven eervenec Sr~en ZBFL ~ijen Listopad Prosineo
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Sijencsnj Veljds, Februar Oiujak Travanj Svibenj Lipanj, Juni Srpanj, Juli Kolovoz, August Rujan Listopad Studeni Prosinac, Decembar
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