The PLuTO Project

Patent Language Translations Online

Welcome to the online presence of the PLuTO project. Over the project duration, this site will be updated with event reports, project deliverables, presentations and more as such information and materials become available. Please check the site regularly and sign up to our RSS feed to make sure you do not miss out on anything.

Project Information

The problem addressed by this project is the increase, in a large number of countries, of IP protection activities, particularly related to patents (applications, oppositions, and infringement lawsuits). This increases costs and risks for an SME that wants to enter a particular market. In order to reduce thesecosts and risks, PLuTO has identified a number of key objectives:

  • Development of a rapid solution for online retrieval and translation of patents by integrating a number of existing state-of-the-art software components;
  • Commodisation of domain-focussed machine translations, making it more accessible to individual inventors and SMEs who do not have the resources to contract patent lawyers, searchers and translators;
  • Construction of a fully-functional indexing engine that will serve as a complete tool for prior art search by
    professional patent searchers or individual inventors;
  • Deployment of a professional Web 2.0 application where patent searchers, lawyers, translators and others involved in the prior art search, can collaborate on a particular task, sharing search results and translations in order to achieve an optimal solution.



Project Partners

The PLuTO project comprises a dynamic industry-academia consortium, each member of which brings significant experience and expertise to some facet of the project. For more information, visit the Consortium section on this website.



Project Work Packages

For more detailed information on the work to be carried out over the course of the PLuTO project, please visit the Work Packages section of this site.



Further information

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