The Evaluation of Language Regimes

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Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations

Michele Gazzola(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 29. August 2014

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The Evaluation of Language Regimes
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Setting the scene
Chapter 1. The need for evaluation in language policy
1.1 Historical overview
1.1.1 Evaluation in language policy and planning: A missing link
1.1.2 Language policy evaluation: An outline
1.2 Language policy and individuals' welfare
1.2.1 Language policy as public policy
1.2.2 Linguistic laissez-faire and language policy
1.2.3 Linguistic environments, welfare and language policies
1.3 The role of evaluation in language planning
Part I. Theory
Chapter 2. The criteria of efficiency and fairness
2.1 Efficiency and fairness in economics
2.1.1 Efficiency
2.1.2 The Pareto criterion and the compensation principle
2.1.3 Fairness
2.2 Departure from the benchmark: Market failures and public policies
2.2.1 Market failures
2.2.2 Public policies
2.3 Techniques for evaluating the efficiency of public policies
2.3.1 Cost-benefit analysis
2.3.2 Cost-effectiveness analysis
Chapter 3. Multilingual communication as an object of evaluation
3.1 Language as a public good
3.2 Evaluating the efficiency of language policies
3.2.1 The limits of cost-benefit analysis for language policy evaluation
3.2.2 Effective communication as an object of study
3.3 Assessing the fairness of language policies
Chapter 4. The evaluation process
4.1 Organising policy evaluation
4.1.1 Evaluation as organisational learning
4.1.2 Designing evaluation
4.1.3 Implementing evaluation
4.2 Evaluating language regimes
4.2.1 On the concept of language regime
4.2.2 Problem analysis
4.2.3 Design
4.2.4 Implementation
Chapter 5. Indicators
5.1 Policy, social and economic indicators
5.2 Principles of indicator design
5.2.1 Designing indicators
5.2.2 Typologies of indicators
5.2.3 Assessing the quality of indicators and indicator systems
5.3 Existing language policy indicators
5.4 Measuring the diversity of language regimes
Part II. Application to multilingual patent organisations
Chapter 6. Multilingualism and patents
6.1 Intellectual property
6.2 Patents
6.2.1 Characteristics
6.2.2 The rationale for patents
6.3 Costs, effectiveness and fairness of the language regimes of patent offices
6.3.1 Assessing costs
6.3.2 Assessing effectiveness
6.3.3 Assessing fairness
6.4 Evaluating the language regime of patent offices
6.5 Innovation, patenting and translation requirements
Chapter 7. The language regime of the PCT system
7.1 The international patent system
7.1.1 Historical insights
7.1.2 Patent statistics as indicators of innovation
7.2 The World Intellectual Property Organisation
7.2.1 Structure
7.2.2 Official languages and language services
7.3 The language regime of the PCT system
7.3.1 An international multilingual network
7.3.2 A multilingual provider of technical knowledge
7.4 Multilingualism in the PCT system
7.4.1 Current trends in international applications
7.4.6 Languages used in filing: global dynamics and policy outcomes
7.4.3 Languages of publication as carriers of technical knowledge
7.4.4 Business strategies and applicants' language choices
7.5 Efficiency and fairness of multilingualism in the PCT system
7.5.1 Evaluation at the filing stage
7.5.2 Evaluation at the publication stage
Chapter 8. The language regime of the EPO
8.1 The European Patent Office
8.1.1 History and structure
8.1.2 Procedures and language regime: The Euro-direct route
8.1.3 The Euro-PCT route
8.1.4 The London Agreement
8.2 Multilingualism in the EPO
8.2.1 The EPO as a multilingual provider of technical information
8.2.2 Current trends in European patent applications and grants
8.3 Evaluating the language regime of the EPO
8.3.1 The issue of "standing" in patent services
8.3.2 The distributive effects of the language regime of the EPO
8.3.3 Exploring alternatives
Conclusions
Chapter 9. Summary and perspectives
9.1 The rationale for this book
9.2 Theoretical contributions
9.3 Methodological advances
9.4 Empirical findings
9.4.1 Explaining language regimes of multilingual patent organisations
9.4.2 Unpublished figures
9.4.3 Three comparative analyses
9.5 Concluding remarks and research perspectives
Annexes and bibliography
Appendices
1. Impact of Translation on Patent Creation: Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Cost-effectiveness analysis
2. Optional steps in the PCT procedure
3. Advantages of the PCT system over the Paris system
4. Top 12 PCT applicant countries per field of technology
5. List of the EPC contracting states sorted by date of accession
References
Index

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