Certified Patent Application translation
Patent translation where the words define the monopoly: claims rendered with legal and technical precision, terminology locked across the specification, certified when the patent office requires it.
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Where wording is the invention’s border.
In patent text, translation choices are scope choices: a term rendered slightly wide or narrow moves the boundary of what the patent protects. That is why patent translation is a specialist discipline, not a general legal job with technical vocabulary.
USPTO and priority claims
Foreign priority documents and foreign-language applications entering US prosecution need certified English translations. Examiners read them for support, and later challengers read them for gaps.
Litigation and challenges
Infringement and validity fights over foreign-origin patents dissect the translation line by line. Ours are prepared as if opposing counsel were the audience — because eventually they may be.
Patent attorneys and agents
Prosecution counsel needs faithful raw material: prior art, office actions, and applications rendered precisely enough to argue over, with terminology stable across the family.
R&D and competitive review
Engineering teams monitoring foreign filings need translations that respect the technology. A mistranslated parameter sends a research direction down the wrong path.
What gets translated
Claims, spec, and drawings — one consistent system.
A patent is self-referential machinery: claims lean on the specification, the specification narrates the drawings, and reference numerals stitch it together. The translation preserves the whole system.
Claims with scope discipline
Claim language rendered term by term, preserving breadth exactly — neither widening nor narrowing what the original claims.
Terminology locked
Each technical term mapped once and enforced across claims, specification, and abstract — drift here is how support arguments die.
Reference numerals intact
Every numeral kept aligned with the drawings, so element 14 is the same component in every language.
Priority data and citations
Application numbers, dates, and prior-art citations reproduced exactly as filed.
Abstract and summary
Rendered within formal constraints while staying faithful to the disclosure.
Certified for filing
Delivered with the signed accuracy statement patent offices require for translations entering prosecution.
Before you order
What patent teams scope deliberately.
Match the linguist to the art
A biotech claim and a power-electronics claim fail in different ways. Orders are routed by technical field to linguists who work in that art — tell us the classification or field and the routing is exact.
Send the drawings too
The specification narrates the figures, and translating blind to them is how numeral mismatches happen. Drawings usually need no translation themselves, but they steer the text — include them with every order.
Families deserve one glossary
Continuations, divisionals, and foreign counterparts should speak identical terminology. We maintain a termbase per family, so the language holds steady across years of prosecution.
How it works
Specification to filing-ready — with terminology locked.
Photograph or scan it
Take a clear photo or scan of your patent application and upload it. The word count and the exact total show before you pay — no account needed.
A specialist linguist takes it
Your file goes to a native speaker who works with this document type every week and knows its stamps, layouts, and abbreviations on sight.
Reviewed, then certified
A second linguist checks names, dates, numbers, and layout against the original. Only then is the Certificate of Accuracy signed.
Delivered as one PDF
Translation, certificate, and a copy of the source in a single file — ready to attach to your filing or forward to whoever asked for it.
Pricing is by word count — patent specifications are long, and the quote prices exactly what yours contains, shown in full before you pay. Priority documents and office actions are itemized per document.
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FAQ
The questions that actually come up.
The ones we hear most often, answered by our dispatch and project-management teams.
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01Will the USPTO accept your translation of my priority document?
Yes — priority and foreign-language documents are delivered with the signed statement of accuracy US prosecution requires. The deeper value is downstream: the translation is built so that when a challenger reads it against the original years later, nothing has drifted.
02Who translates the claims — a lawyer or an engineer?
A linguist who lives in both registers: technically fluent in the field of the invention and practiced in claim conventions. Claims are then reviewed by a second specialist, because a single adjective placed loosely can widen a claim into invalidity or narrow it out of infringement.
03Can you translate office actions and cited prior art quickly?
Yes — prosecution runs on deadlines, and office actions with their citations are handled as priority work. Tell us the response date and the schedule is built backward from it, with the family glossary applied automatically.
04Our in-house team has preferred terminology for our technology.
Send it. A client termbase overrides our defaults wherever it speaks, and we flag any collision between your terms and the source text rather than silently choosing. Consistency with your own filings is part of the product.
05How is the price calculated?
By word count. Upload the specification and documents, we count the words, and the exact total shows before you pay — starting at $24.95. Long specifications are priced by their actual content, itemized per document.
06Is our unpublished application kept confidential?
Strictly — unpublished disclosures are treated at the same confidentiality tier as litigation material: encrypted handling, access limited to the assigned specialists, and NDAs countersigned on request.
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Your invention’s words, held to scope.
Upload the specification with its drawings and see the exact price and delivery time before you pay. Field-matched specialists, locked terminology, and certification for filing.