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Translation of abstract or title of invention

• When will the Registrar treat a translation as deficient?

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• When will the Registrar treat a translation as deficient?

  The Registrar will raise an objection if the translation of the abstract or the title of invention are not full and complete translations from English to Chinese or vice versa. For example, if the English abstract contains numeric references used in the accompanying drawing but the Chinese abstract contains no numeric references, the Registrar will treat this as a formal requirement deficiency and will raise an objection. Difficulties may arise in relation to names of chemical substances or other terms where there is no Chinese equivalent. In such cases, you or your agent should inform the Registrar that no Chinese equivalent term exists. Otherwise, the Registrar is likely to ask that those terms appearing in English in the Chinese translation are translated into Chinese characters.