Patent Translations
We translate foreign patents and patent applications into English for filing with the U.S. Patent Office and prior art searches.
Native English speaking translators
U.S. patent lawyers and Intellectual Property law firms engaged in patent prosecution for foreign clients already understand the value of using trained English speaking patent translators. A translation done by a non-native English speaker, which may be supplied by your foreign client, can cost you time and effort as you rewrite the filing document making corrections in style and grammar. Working with native English speaking subject-qualified patent translators allows you to focus on the claims and filing strategy rather than correcting poor English usage.
Subject-qualified translators
Most translators are generalists educated in the liberal arts, language studies, and linguistics. A smaller number have science or technology backgrounds, coupled with knowledge of one or more languages. Patent translators come most naturally from the group with technical backgrounds, but a small number of generalists have developed the skills and subject knowledge needed to turn out exceptional translations in specific fields. In either case the key to good patent translation is to assign the project to a person who is thoroughly familiar with translating patents in the area of technology involved. A patent translation agency thus needs access to a large on-call team of translation specialists to make the best translator selection for your project.
Why to avoid agencies with in-house translators
Some general translation agencies act as brokers and advertise that they are able to translate all types of documents in all languages. If they employ in-house translators it makes economic sense to assign all the incoming work possible to their employees, whether they have subject-specific knowledge needed for handling the more technical documents or not. The accuracy and quality of your patent translation could suffer as a result. Reputable patent translation agencies build teams of subject specialists in a range of technology areas, and make translator assignments based on individual technical expertise.
When you need an accurate translation of foreign patents or patent applications into English, please call us and ask for your free quote!