This book is written on the basis of the author's long-term engagement in patent agency, patent document retrieval and patent document translation, aiming to help readers improve the translation level of English patent documents in a short time. This book briefly introduces the basic knowledge of patents and patent documents, and explains in detail the common idioms and difficult sentences in English patent documents. The book provides examples of various English patent documents with reference translations for self-study. The book also provides tools that need to be consulted frequently in the process of reading and translating English patent documents.

Readers: patent agents, scientific and technological information personnel, scientific and technological workers, teachers and students of science and engineering universities, teachers and students of English colleges and law schools, etc.