Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Time: 6 - 7.30 p.m. (to be followed by dinner, nearby)
Venue: Room H, 4th floor, U's 2, Umeda, Osaka
(opposite the Hilton Hotel on Yotsubashi-suji, ampm on the ground floor)
Cost: JAT members free; 500 yen for JTF and SWET members; 1,000 yen for non-members
RSVP: by midnight Monday April 22, noting whether you will attend dinner or not.
[Pre-IJET 24 Talk Blurb]
Judge will take a look at three problem sentences from patent-related technical documents. The first of the sentences involves serious term-of-art issues and begs the question, how far should the translator go to get the right term? The second is a convoluted sentence from a Japanese 「拒絶理由通知」 involving 「とする」 permutations. The third is a syntactically challenging sentence from a patent claim that Judge translated and that is currently under examination at the USPTO. Judge will be sure to leave good time for a question-and-answer discussion.
[Profile]
James Judge is a U.S. patent agent and patent translator living and working in Kansai. He has been editing patent specifications translated from Japanese for over twenty years, for a good fifteen years he translated Japanese patent specifications into English, still occasionally gets the opportunity to do so, and for the past fifteen years has been filing and prosecuting U.S. patent applications, a number of them that he translated himself, directly before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
While he does not believe that being a working patent agent necessarily makes him a better patent translator, he does believe that it makes him a bit more knowledgeable translator, and that some of that knowledge may even be useful to other patent and technical translators.