30/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - EPO and Google agree on translation of patents - The European Patent Office (EPO) signed a draft agreement on Tuesday with the Google search engine allowing EPO to use Google's translation technology to translate patents in 38 countries in Europe, in other words 29 different languages. In return, Google will have access to the translated patents, in other words to 1.5 million documents, that it can use to improve its translating technology. This cooperation also...