To further improve multilingual access to information contained in European Patent Office (EPO) patent documents, EPO recently announced that it added seven new languages, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian and Polish, will be added to the free patent translation service.

The patent translation service was first launched in February 2012. The first set of service languages included French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The service now enables on-the-fly-translation to and from English for thirteen languages, which provides more convenient multilingual access to patent documents on EPO’s website.