Six Reasons to Work with a Patent Translation Services Provider

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Patent translations account for a considerable percentage of international patent filing costs, influencing decisions on where to file and potentially limiting an organization’s ability to protect valuable intellectual property. By centralizing your translations with a specialist patent translation services provider, such as Questel, you could reduce costs, streamline processes, and mitigate risk while maximizing patent protection worldwide.

From empowering internal resources to boosting accuracy and consistency, rethinking your approach to patent translation could deliver significant cost and efficiency benefits for your organization—and its international filing strategy.

While cost savings may provide the impetus for change, working with a patent translation specialist, such as Questel, will also help you to modernize and digitalize your entire approach to international patent prosecution, bringing cost and efficiency benefits across the translation and filing process.

Why Work with a Patent Translation Services Company?

Understanding the nuances of patent translation is more critical than ever for businesses seeking to protect their innovations. By partnering with a central partner for patent translations, you will have access to three critical resources:

Specialist Knowledge: Given the highly technical language and references contained in patent applications, your patent needs to be translated by a specialist who is well-versed in the technical field related to the invention as well as the language. Your partner for patent translations should manage a network of subject matter experts (SMEs) with knowledge of your technical field, the language pair, and the complexities of IP law across the relevant jurisdictions.
Efficiency-Boosting Tools: Language service providers utilize specialist translation tools that improve efficiency, lower costs, and ensure error-free deliverables. For example, translation memories, glossaries, and machine translation can all be used to identify repetitive text, cutting time and costs during the patent translation process.
A Single Point of Contact: Centralizing the patent translation process with a single specialist provider improves communication, coordination, quality assurance, and cost control at every stage, increasing control and oversight and boosting consistency across patent translations.

Six Key Benefits of Outsourcing Patent Translations

Better Use of Internal Resources

Free up internal teams to concentrate on higher-value tasks by centralizing and streamlining patent translation projects, including the management of foreign agents, with a patent translation services specialist.

Access to Subject Matter Expertise

A reliable, proactive, and quality-driven patent translation partner will manage an experienced network of industry-specific patent translators.

Translation Consistency

By choosing a single partner for patent translations, you can consolidate the entire process to achieve consistency, oversight, and cost control.

Efficiency-Gaining Processes and Tools

Your partner for patent translation services should not only support you with tech-driven solutions that reduce email correspondence, manual data entry, and duplication of effort but also enable you to centralize and automate data and workflows in a single system.

Immediate and Significant Cost Savings

Through economies of scale, transparent service charges, and proactive cost control, your chosen solution should deliver immediate and significant cost savings for your business.

A Fully Optimized Approach

By modernizing and digitalizing your patent translations today, you will be ready to integrate and optimize future developments in technology and service delivery.

How to Choose the Right Partner for Patent Translations

The risks and financial ramifications of submitting low-quality translations during international patent filing cancel out any savings from using a low-cost provider. Getting the patent properly translated right from the start is worth the cost--and is likely to save you money in the long run.

When choosing a patent translation partner, look for a company that will support you to:

Simplify the Patent Translation Process

Choose a partner who will help you to reduce the number of administrative tasks on your to-do list; for example, by coordinating the gathering of formality documents or agent instruction, not only managing each individual patent translation. As part of our end-to-end international filing support services, Questel handles the entire workflow for clients, working directly with foreign agents and assigned patent translators to track deadlines and provide timely notifications, ensuring filing instructions are accurate, and managing the delivery of formality documents.

How to Modernize International Patent Filing and Prosecution

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Send and Track Patent Translation Instructions with Ease

Outsourcing patent translations won’t save much time if you’re spending countless hours managing briefings, quotes, and correspondence. Look for a partner with a reliable and secure patent translation management system, so you can send instructions with ease and track costs and progress to reduce your administrative load. From prior art searching to patent application translations, filings, renewals, and more, Questel enables our clients to remain in control, whether they choose to manage their services through our IP Services Portal or our integrated IP management software.

Uphold Quality at Every Stage

Whether translating patent applications, prior art, or legal documents, a meticulous approach is essential for ensuring legal accuracy and clarity across jurisdictions. Accuracy is paramount in patent translations with even minor errors risking significant legal consequences from patent application rejections to expensive office actions and even the inability to enforce your rights. To maintain high standards of accuracy, Questel upholds a superior level of quality assurance even while lowering your translation costs thanks to our streamlined processes and experienced team.

Reasons to Partner with Questel for Patent Translation Services

Questel is a global leader in patent translation services and a partner to the world’s top applicants and IP law firms.

No. 1 patent translator globally;
100,000+ patents translated/year;
1 billion+ words translated over the last three years alone;
WIPO translator provider;
ISO certified.

We routinely save our large, multinational clients 20%+ in annual patent translation fees, while maintaining quality at the same level.

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Ready to discover a new way to manage patent translations?

Contact our team to discuss how our patent translation services could help you navigate the intricacies of patent translation and international patent filing with precision and confidence.