Litigation support
We provide expert linguistic support for your litigation team when large volumes of patent-related technical and legal documents need to be translated into English, particularly in infringement suits and licensing disputes.
Complex Litigation
Professional linguistic support may be essential if you are an attorney preparing for a high-profile intellectual property dispute involving complex litigation. Your client could be an international high-technology firm, and the stakes are high. You face the probability of receiving boxes of discovery documents, with the likelihood that large portions are written in foreign languages. These may even include handwritten lab notes with comments in the margins. Your first task is simply to catalog and evaluate this volume of materials.
Intellectual Property cases
If the litigation involves current technology you may also encounter key foreign patents that are important to your case. You may also find foreign patent office actions, letters, email chains, and other documents dealing with both legal and technical matters. You will need to understand their contents to plan your strategy.
We may be able to help
We specialize in the translation of intellectual property documents with close attention to both legal and technological implications. We have a track record of supporting litigators in many such cases and would like to discuss your specific needs as soon as we can sign your non-disclosure agreement or protective order.
Organization and overview
Your needs and time frame will set the agenda, but a good approach may be to have us translate a core set of key intellectual property documents. We can also simultaneously catalog each foreign language page of the remaining case documents, usually designated by Bates numbers; this allows you to develop a detailed overview of the scope of the foreign language portion of the project. You will then be able to assign priorities for the translation of the most relevant documents, and will develop a good idea of the level of effort, time, and cost required.
A team effort
Large and complex litigation cases often require the services of several translation agencies, especially if the time available is short. In some litigation cases we have undertaken the entire translation task, while in others we have worked as part of a larger team with other agencies to get the job done quickly.
Whenever you must engage in complex litigation involving foreign patents, office actions, or technical documentation that need to be translated accurately and economically into English, please call us to discuss your needs!