Van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; Mejer, Malwina - 2008
), which aims to reduce the translation requirements for patent validation procedures in 15 out of 34 national patent offices …. With an average translation cost saving of €3,600 per patent, the total savings for the business sector amount to about … percent. Despite the translation cost savings, the relative cost of a European patent validated in six (thirteen) countries is …