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Patent Translation Services

Your trusted translation partner for all patent affairs and intellectual property.

Patent Translations: Precision and Legal Protection Guaranteed

Translating patents requires precision and expertise to ensure your intellectual property remains protected across borders.

Intertranslations delivers reliable, accurate patent translations across industries like life sciences, engineering, and software. Our ISO 17100:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications ensure top precision and quality, upholding the highest standards for your intellectual property.

Key Considerations in Translating Patents

Late patent translations can cause legal, financial, and strategic setbacks, affecting a multinational company’s profits and global competitiveness. The primary challenges in patent translation revolve around ensuring accuracy and timely delivery. Accurate translations are crucial for securing legal protection of an invention or property in the desired registration countries or offices. Moreover, it’s essential to submit these translations to the patent offices within the required deadlines.

Submitting an inaccurate or imprecise patent translation to a patent office can have several consequences:

Risk of Patent Rejection: Mistakes in translation can lead to misunderstandings, increasing the likelihood of patent rejection, which can cause additional expenses and delays in entering the market.
Legal Vulnerabilities: Translation inaccuracies can weaken the patent’s legal defense, allowing competitors an opportunity to challenge or infringe upon the patent more easily.
Compromised Competitive Advantage: Inaccurate translations can limit the scope of patent protection, making it easier for competitors to circumvent patents, threatening both revenue and market position.
Correction Costs: Identifying errors after filing may necessitate corrections or amendments, incurring extra costs and potential legal complications.
Lost Revenue: Delays in patent approval due to translation errors can postpone product launches, leading to lost revenue, especially if competitors capitalize on these delays to capture market share first.

Missing a submission deadline can have significant and multifaceted consequences:

Loss of Patent Rights: Failing to file a patent on time can lead to losing exclusive rights in the target country, allowing competitors to legally produce and sell similar products.
Reduced Market Share: Lacking patent protection allows competitors to mimic products, reducing market share and brand value.
Lost Revenue: Not patenting in a key market may result in lost sales and revenue, as competitors can introduce similar products without legal consequences, diminishing the original product’s competitive advantage.
Damage to Reputation: Not patenting in key markets can damage a company’s innovative reputation and affect ties with investors, partners, and consumers.
Opportunity Costs: Efforts to fix patent issues could be better spent on profitable ventures or boosting the company’s market position.

Our Solutions to your IP Questions

How can I ensure that my translations are precise and reliable?

A Glossary per Client: For every new project, we develop a master glossary of essential content-specific terms used by our client. Every glossary is developed by our experienced team of linguists, which is verified and approved beforehand. This approach ensures our deliverables meet high standards of quality.

ISO 9001:2015: Our ISO 9001:2015 certification reflects our commitment to quality and excellence. We employ native-speaking translators and leverage a network of experts, boosting patent registration success.

Do you find that repeated content is driving up your project costs?

Our approach includes employing advanced translation management software to identify and count repeated segments in the text upon its receipt and analysis.

Drawing from our expertise, we’ve noticed significant repetition in technical documents. This allows us to offer discounts exceeding 50%, as our fees are based solely on the linguistic team’s actual effort.

Interested in understanding our pricing structure?

Our pricing is project-specific, calculated on a per-word basis, with repetitions excluded. We utilize advanced translation management tools for efficiency. Upon analyzing your documents, we identify and exclude repeated text from additional charges, ensuring you pay only once for its translation.

We also develop translation memories and a glossary of your key terms. For subsequent translations, we compare new files against these memories, billing only for newly translated content.

Facing strict deadlines?

We ensure timely delivery by assembling dedicated professional teams to focus exclusively on your project.

Is the process of corrections and editing to perfect your final translation consuming too much of your time?

Our delivery includes files prepared for immediate publication, adhering to the ISO 17100:2015 standard.
We provide comprehensive T.E.P. (Translation, Editing, and Proofreading) services conducted by experienced native speakers and specialists in the subject matter.

Are your source documents comprised of images that can’t be edited?

Our skilled graphic designers can extract text from images, forward it to our translators, and then return the image with the text translated into the desired language.

Interested in learning how we ensure your documents remain confidential?

Security is our top priority. We hold ISO 27001:2013 and Cyber Essentials certifications, and comply with GDPR. Every member of our team, including freelancers, signs a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

Looking for a translation agency that promises quality and offers indemnity insurance?

We back our services with 10 million GBP in Indemnity insurance, and proudly, we’ve never had to claim it in our 25+ years of business.

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Our Patent Translation Services

With Intertranslations, you are guaranteed services that encompass:

High-Quality Translations: Your patent will be accurately translated by native-speaking industry professionals familiar with sector-specific practices and cultures.
Comprehensive Document Translation: From complete patents to specifications, annexes, reports, and licensing contracts, we handle all types of documents with expert guidance throughout the process.
Certification and Confidentiality: We provide certified translations with a steadfast commitment to keeping your documents confidential.
Competitive Pricing: Enjoy attractive rates for our top-tier services.
Legal Assurance: Rest assured that your translated patent will offer the same legal protection as the original.