News & Blog
News & Blog
Articles on patent translation, intellectual property, and technological trends shaping the translation industry, along with announcements and event information.
Series: Regular Expressions — Replacing a Phrase While Keeping the Words You Need
Part 4 of our regex series shows how to find and replace recurring phrasing in English technical documents using \S, alternation, character classes, and capture groups—and why controlling the match boundaries matters.
Series: Regular Expressions — Reordering Captured Text in Replacements
In Part 3 of our regular-expression series, we look at capture groups: how to save parts of a match and reuse them in a different order during replacement.
Series: Regular Expressions — Finding Dates with a Single Pattern
Part 2 of our regular-expression series builds a pattern step by step to find numeric dates such as 9/1/2026 and 12/31/2025. Along the way, we introduce {1,2} and an important point: there is rarely just one valid regular expression for a search.
Series: Regular Expressions — A Skill That Still Matters in the AI Era
Regular expressions have long been a favorite tool among professionals who work with large volumes of text. In this series, we will start from the very basics. Part 1 explains what regular expressions are and introduces a few expressions worth learning first.
Translation Generation Costs and Quality Assurance Costs
AI has made generating a translation nearly instant, but confirming that the translation is accurate is a separate job — and it hasn't gotten cheaper at the same rate. This article splits translation into generation and quality assurance, and looks at what AI has changed and what it hasn't.
Surge in Generative AI Patents — WIPO Releases Latest Trends Report
WIPO's July 2026 report shows that generative AI patent families published in 2024–2025 exceeded the total of the previous decade, with Japan posting the fastest growth among major countries.
Translation AI 'Lara' Now Available in memoQ 12.4.36
memoQ 12.4.36 adds a plugin for the translation AI Lara. From a patent-translation perspective, we look at its appeal as an adaptive LLM and at the confidentiality question of how translation data may be reused.
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