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Notes on patent translation practice.

• Virus, vi rút, vi-rút, virut, virút or siêu vi: Which form should Vietnamese use? 22 October 2026 Six Vietnamese spellings and names for virus, what the sources establish, and how translators can choose and apply terminology consistently.
• The same term does not always mean the same referent 22 October 2026 A practical way to track a, the and said in English–Vietnamese patent claims, preserving references without silently resolving source ambiguities.
• Machine translation changed what it measures. Patent documents did not. 3 August 2026 Four generations of machine translation, each optimising for something different — and why the yardstick a patent specification is read by is not among them.