A Report On The Translation Of Intellectual Property Strategy By John Palfrey

As the role of intellectual property is increasingly important, more and more countries have established and implemented intellectual property strategy to protect their own intellectual property rights. In order to promote self-innovation and limit the abuse use of intellectual property of transnational corporations, China is in need of setting and implementing its own intellectual property. The source text of this translation project, Intellectual Property Strategy, is written by the prestigious professor John Palfrey, who describes the importance of intellectual property and how to establish it. This translation project is of great significance to make people know the importance of improving the sense of intellectual property. Meanwhile, it provides dramatic examples for the current academically research of intellectual property rights.This report is divided into four chapters. In chapter one, the translator makes a detailed description of the translation project, including the project background, meanings and significance. Then, the translator analyses the stylistic features of the source text, which is respectively from lexical level, syntactical level and textual level, and also introduces the text typology theory. On the basis of the text analysis, the translator bases on Newmark’s communicative translation to explore the related translation strategies to solve the translation difficulties, for example, long sentence and parenthesis, so that the target text is more readable and coherence and the source text information is accurately transferred. Chapter four concludes with the inspiration and lessons in the project.