TY  - GEN
AB  - Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or "language regimes") to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step how to organise the evaluation of language regimes and how to design and interpret indicators for such evaluation. The second part of this book applies the theoretical framework to the evaluation of the language policy of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) division of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). Results show that an increase in linguistic diversity of the language regimes of patent organisations can both improve the efficiency of the patent system and lead to a more balanced distribution of costs among countries. This book is a resource for scholars in language policy and planning and for policy-makers in the international and European patent system.
AU  - Gazzola, Michele.,
CN  - P119.32.E85 -- .G389 2014eb
ID  - 27854
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Patents
KW  - Language policy -- Europe
KW  - Linguistic minorities -- Europe
KW  - Multicultural education -- Europe
KW  - Multilingualism -- Europe
LA  - eng
LK  - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wipo/detail.action?docID=1764740
N1  - Description based upon print version of record.
N2  - Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or "language regimes") to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step how to organise the evaluation of language regimes and how to design and interpret indicators for such evaluation. The second part of this book applies the theoretical framework to the evaluation of the language policy of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) division of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). Results show that an increase in linguistic diversity of the language regimes of patent organisations can both improve the efficiency of the patent system and lead to a more balanced distribution of costs among countries. This book is a resource for scholars in language policy and planning and for policy-makers in the international and European patent system.
SN  - 9789027270450
T1  - Evaluation of Language Regimes :Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations.
TI  - Evaluation of Language Regimes :Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations.
UR  - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wipo/detail.action?docID=1764740
VL  - v.3
ER  -