What is the Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) role in patent translations?

The Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) plays a crucial role in providing human translations for patent examiners when dealing with non-English language prior art. According to MPEP 901.05(d): “If the examiner believes that a machine translation or translation submitted by an applicant is not accurate, the examiner should obtain a human translation from STIC.”…

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