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  • What you need to know about patents

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    Dealing with patents can be a daunting prospect if you’re unfamiliar with them. However, there’s a good reason many companies have complete strategies dedicated to their approach to patents. When structured and implemented properly they can provide your company with a huge competitive advantage and increase your potential earnings considerably. A patent can be utilised in several ways. Below we’ll

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  • What is Transcreation?

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    Too often, we approach translation in its simplest terms. We take a sentence in our language, adapt it like-for-like, and accept the result for what it is. “What’s the problem?” I hear you ask. Well, nothing, at a surface level. But, there are more layers to translation than many come to appreciate – rarely can one language be directly reflected

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  • 1999 – Project Fear!

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    Following the Brexit referendum, there was a lot of controversy about how the Remain side had allegedly used “Project Fear” to persuade people that leaving the EU would be a catastrophe. It rather reminded me of a similar tactic employed in the run-up to the millennium year of 2000 when the experts confidently assured us the digital world was about

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  • Plain sailing and stormy waters

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    Translation work was coming in and for a while things seemed to be set fair. Then the vessel started to ship water. 1992 might have been a watershed for European integration, but for the UK it brought a devastating recession. Our new company, now baptised with its present name, Anglia Translations, managed to survive, mainly because we had few overheads

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