The WIPO Pearl database of scientific, technical and legal terminology spanning 10 languages has been updated and now contains over 270,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, over 30,000 unique concepts (or 90%) are linked to other concepts in the database, and the concept maps displayed in our Concept Map Search show how they relate to one another. Further relationships can be shown in “concept clouds” produced via an AI algorithm. You can use WIPO Pearl to help understand the meaning of scientific, technical and legal terms, to find accurate equivalents for terms in other languages, and for example to find with one click any patent in WIPO’s PATENTSCOPE database that contains one or more of the terms you’re interested in, in any language.
Collaboration with universities
This database update includes more than 250 new multilingual terminology records and over 650 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:
- National University of Córdoba, Argentina
- Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Saarland University, Germany
- University of Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Hildesheim, Germany
- University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- University of York, United Kingdom
We invite universities interested in a collaboration of this kind to contact us or explore the various options of terminology collaboration with us.