Sublizenz

English translation: sublicence (BE-noun) sublicense (AE-noun) sublicense (AE/preferredBE-verb)

03:34 Aug 13, 2000
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Law: Contract(s)
German term or phrase: Sublizenz
I am translating a contract between a patent holder who is giving these rights to someone else in a licence. If the licensee then gives these rights to one of its subsidiaries this is called a Sublizenz - would this be a sublicence in English?
Julie
English translation:sublicence (BE-noun) sublicense (AE-noun) sublicense (AE/preferredBE-verb)
Explanation:
My Hamblock/Wessels also shows all four forms without a hyphen (including the verb sublicense), as does Eichborn. NODE, the ultimate, all-time, absolute, indisputable source-of-all-sources doesn't show any of them, with or without, nor does Webster.

Romain show three of the four with a hyphen:

sub-licence (noun)

sub-licensee

sub-licensor

AltaVista returns 30,700 hits for sublicense and only 3,200 for sub-license but for 544 for sub-licence compared to 171 for sublicence. This strange correlation for verbs and nouns is probably brought about by the confusion caused by the AE/BE verb spelling difference.

Looks like Romain is out in the cold, nearly all alone, except for his hyphens and a few AltaVista hits. HTH Dan
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naSublicence
Sabine Trautewein
nasublicence (BE-noun) sublicense (AE-noun) sublicense (AE/preferredBE-verb)
Dan McCrosky (X)


  

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6 mins
Sublicence


Explanation:
Yes that would be right.


    Hamblock Wessels Gro�w�rterbuch Wirtschaftenglisch
Sabine Trautewein
Local time: 20:05
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 20

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sublicence (BE-noun) sublicense (AE-noun) sublicense (AE/preferredBE-verb)


Explanation:
My Hamblock/Wessels also shows all four forms without a hyphen (including the verb sublicense), as does Eichborn. NODE, the ultimate, all-time, absolute, indisputable source-of-all-sources doesn't show any of them, with or without, nor does Webster.

Romain show three of the four with a hyphen:

sub-licence (noun)

sub-licensee

sub-licensor

AltaVista returns 30,700 hits for sublicense and only 3,200 for sub-license but for 544 for sub-licence compared to 171 for sublicence. This strange correlation for verbs and nouns is probably brought about by the confusion caused by the AE/BE verb spelling difference.

Looks like Romain is out in the cold, nearly all alone, except for his hyphens and a few AltaVista hits. HTH Dan


Dan McCrosky (X)
Local time: 20:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
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