§ 00 — Technical & patent translation · Brooklyn, NY
English, German, Japanese and Spanish. A glossary built around your own terms, a signed accuracy statement with every delivery, and one flat price per document package — agreed before a single sentence is translated.
What lands on our desk
We work on documents where a single wrong word has consequences: a claim scoped too wide, a tolerance misread on the shop floor, a warning that doesn’t warn. That is the only work we take, and we price it so you know the full cost on day one.
Applications, claim sets, office action responses, priority documents and prior-art references.
from $1,865 See the Filing PackageDatasheets, tolerancing notes, test protocols, RFQs and supplier requirement sheets.
from $545 See the Desk BriefOperating and maintenance manuals, warning label sets, quick-start sheets and IFUs.
from $3,940 See the Manual ProgrammeEvery direction, one desk
| From | EN | DE | JA | ES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EN | — | 6 d | 8 d | 6 d |
| DE | 6 d | — | 9 d | 7 d |
| JA | 8 d | 9 d | — | 9 d |
| ES | 6 d | 7 d | 9 d | — |
How we look after a document
Your engineers already have a word for every part. Our job is to find its exact counterpart in German, Japanese or Spanish, agree it with you once, and then hold to it on every page that follows.
Term base · .tbx / .xlsxa
We pull every recurring term from your source, propose a rendering in each target language with a context line, and send it to your engineer for a nod. Changes are made once, centrally.
Claims · second readerb
A second linguist checks antecedent basis and makes sure “comprising” never quietly becomes “consisting of” on its way into an Anspruch, a 請求項 or a reivindicación.
InDesign · FrameMaker · XMLc
Manuals return in the file format we received, with signal words — DANGER, WARNUNG, 危険, PELIGRO — and pictograms sitting exactly where your labelling standard expects them.
Signed · dated · per filed
Each delivered file carries a signed statement naming the document, the language pair and the date, formatted to sit alongside your filing or a regulator’s request.
Flat-rate document packages
Choose the package that matches your file. If it runs longer than the ceiling, we tell you the exact add-on in the same reply — the number you approve is the number on the invoice.
$545 per document
Suited to datasheets, spec sheets, label sets and office-action letters.
Quote my short document$1,865 per document
Built for patent applications, PCT national-phase entries and full specifications.
Quote my filing$3,940 first language
For operating, maintenance and safety manuals headed to new markets.
Quote my manualOver the word ceiling? $236 per additional 1,000 words, quoted up front. Rush delivery at roughly half the standard turnaround adds 40% to the package.
Before you ask
Gladly — send .tbx, .tmx or a plain spreadsheet. We adopt your approved terms as-is, flag any we think need a second look, and the package price stays the same. It often shortens turnaround.
Yes. We’ll sign your NDA before you send anything. Files are held on encrypted storage, and we delete the working copies 90 days after delivery unless you ask us to keep your term base on file.
Tell us the market and we’ll translate for it — Spain or Latin American Spanish, Germany or Swiss German conventions, and Japanese written for a patent examiner or for a factory floor. Each reads differently, and we treat them that way.
We send an invoice once you approve the written quote. Card, Apple Pay, ACH transfer and business check are all welcome; larger Manual Programmes can be split into two payments.
From a working glossary
This is what an entry in your glossary looks like — the rendering, its grammatical gender, and the sentence it came from, so the next translator never has to guess.
Context: “The torque limiter disengages the output shaft when load exceeds 40 N·m.” Approved by client engineering.
Send it over
Tell us the target language and when you need it in hand. During desk hours — daily, 10am to 6pm — a written quote comes back before we close.
Invoiced once you approve the quote — we accept: