Foreign languages, documented

Currently, NASA has four series of technical publications. These include NASA Technical Reports, which are unclassified presentations of a body of information which is considered to be complete and important NASA Technical Notes, which supplement but do not overlap the Technical Reports NASA Technical Memorandums, which are principally classified documents to be reissued as reports or notes if they are considered to be of general interest at the time they are declassified and NASA Technical Translations, which present information which has been published in a foreign language. NASA reports and publications are announced in Technical Publications Announcements. This is a biweekly abstract list of all published NASA documents. It is supplemented by the annually published Index of NASA Technical Publications. Both are available from the NASA Office of Technical Information and Educational Programs, Code ETD, Washington 25, D.C. 

The articles will follow the original texts verbatim, and (with rare and clearly marked exceptions) will be printed in full rather than in excerpt or in edited and abbreviated versions they may therefore be used in lieu of the original publications. Foreign-language articles will be carefully translated. In short, both the interested layman and the historian or scientist should feel assured that he is reading these documents as they were intended to be read, and in the version in which they made their original contribution. 

Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide useful background information for researchers who are beginning in nuclear engineering or who need to get up to speed on a topic outside their area of expertise. Multilanguage dictionaries provide assistance to researchers working with documents in foreign languages or with teams from other countries. 

If you are the inventor and are representing yourself (pro se), then you will need to supply the information yourself to the USPTO. The information submitted must be listed on an information disclosure statement, and the forms can be found on the USPTO website. Briefly, there is a section for U.S. patent and published patent applications, foreign patent applications, and patents as well as nonpatent references. For U.S. patents and patent publications, only a citation is necessary. For non-U.S. patent references or any other reference, the citation must be indicated on the form and a hardcopy of the reference must be provided. If the reference is written in a language other than English, a summary of the relevancy of the document in English or an English translation must be provided. 

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