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§ 02 — Services & flat rates · Brooklyn, NY

The rate card for patents, specs & safety manuals.

Everything we translate, everything each package includes, and exactly what it costs — set out here so you can choose with confidence before you’ve written us a single line.

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The three desks

Each kind of document gets its own desk — and its own flat price.

A patent claim, a tolerance callout and a warning label fail in different ways. So each package is built around the risks of one document type, with the checks that matter for it already included.

A Japanese safety manual page with a boxed danger warning, checked in navy pencil against its English source
Signal words checked against the source, page by page

APatent filings

Filing Package

For applications on their way to the USPTO, EPO, JPO or OEPM — and the correspondence that follows them. Your claims are read by a second linguist before anything is delivered.

Flat · per document

$1,865

6–9 business days, by pair

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Documents we take

  • Utility and design applications
  • PCT national-phase entries
  • Claim amendments & office action responses
  • Priority documents and cited prior art

Included in the price

  • Up to 7,500 source words, one direction
  • Second-linguist review of antecedent basis and transitional phrases
  • Glossary of up to 250 terms
  • Claim numbering and reference numerals kept to your source
  • Signed certificate of accuracy

BEngineering specifications

Desk Brief

For the shorter documents your suppliers and plant teams act on directly. Every unit, tolerance and part number is checked back against the source, so 0.05 mm stays 0.05 mm.

Flat · per document

$545

4 business days

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Documents we take

  • Datasheets and spec sheets
  • Tolerancing notes and GD&T callouts
  • Test protocols and RFQs
  • Supplier requirement sheets & label sets

Included in the price

  • Up to 2,500 source words, one direction
  • Glossary of up to 60 terms
  • Units, tolerances and part numbers verified line by line
  • Returned in your original file format
  • Signed certificate of accuracy

CProduct safety manuals

Manual Programme

For manuals entering a new market, typeset and ready for print. We handle layout in your own files, so you aren’t left pasting translated text into InDesign at midnight.

Flat · first language

$3,940

12 business days · each added language $3,310

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Documents we take

  • Operating and maintenance manuals
  • Warning label and decal sets
  • Quick-start sheets
  • Instructions for use (IFUs)

Included in the price

  • Up to 14,000 source words
  • DTP in InDesign or FrameMaker, print-ready PDF
  • Signal-word and pictogram placement check
  • Reusable term base handed over at the end
  • Signed certificate of accuracy per language

Rate card · valid for files received in 2026

The whole price list, on one sheet of paper.

Each package covers one language direction. Your written quote names the package, any add-on below, and a delivery date — the total you approve is the total we invoice.

Eddyquill flat-rate translation packages compared
Package Word ceiling Glossary Quality pass Turnaround Price Action
Desk BriefEngineering specs 2,500 Up to 60 terms Units & tolerance verification 4 business days $545 Quote this →
Filing PackagePatent filings 7,500 Up to 250 terms Second linguist on claims 6–9 business days $1,865 Quote this →
Manual ProgrammeSafety manuals 14,000 Full term base Signal-word & pictogram pass, DTP proof 12 business days $3,940 Quote this →

Add-ons, priced in advance

The extras, so nothing turns up on an invoice unannounced

If your file needs any of these, we’ll say so in the quote and explain why. If it isn’t written in the quote, it won’t appear on the bill.

Ask which ones apply to my file
  • Additional source wordsAny package, beyond its ceiling$236 / 1,000
  • Rush deliveryAbout half the standard turnaround+40%
  • Each added languageManual Programme$3,310
  • Glossary build on its ownUp to 400 terms, one direction, no translation$385
  • Review & certify an existing translationYour translation, checked and signed$118 / 1,000
  • Revised source after deliveryChanged words only$236 / 1,000
  • Notarized certificate of accuracy$65 per file
  • Signed paper certificate by mailWithin the US$28

A file’s first week on the desk

What happens after you press send.

Shown for a Filing Package, English into German. You’ll hear from us at every stage marked here — and never more often than you’d like.

  1. Same day

    A written quote

    Received during desk hours, your file gets a reply before 6pm: package, any add-on, and the date it will be in your hands.

  2. Day 1

    Your glossary draft

    We pull every recurring term, propose a rendering with its context line, and send it to your engineer or attorney for a nod.

  3. Days 2–5

    Translation

    Worked against the approved glossary. Any questions are gathered into one short email a day, never a steady drip.

  4. Day 6

    The second read

    A second linguist checks each claim: antecedent basis, “comprising” versus “consisting of”, every reference numeral.

  5. Delivery

    Certified & in your inbox

    Translated file, glossary and signed certificate arrive together in one folder, ready to file.

Working to a deadline already? Rush delivery compresses days 2–5 and runs the second read in parallel. Just tell us the date, and we’ll confirm in the quote whether it can be met.

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A completed delivery laid out on a desk: German claims with pencil ticks, a glossary printout and a signed certificate of accuracy with an embossed seal
Every delivery, laid out the same way

The delivery folder

Everything you’ll need, in one folder — named so you can find it in a year.

You shouldn’t have to chase a certificate or rebuild a glossary later. Each delivery arrives complete, with files named by project, document and language.

  • EQ-0419_claims_EN-DE/
  • application_DE.docxThe translation, in your formatting and claim numbering
  • glossary_EN-DE.tbxImports straight into your own CAT tools
  • glossary_EN-DE.xlsxThe same terms, readable by anyone on your team
  • certificate_of_accuracy.pdfSigned and dated, naming the document and language pair
  • query_log.xlsxEvery question we asked, with your answer beside it

Not sure which one fits? Start with the file in front of you.

A few of the documents that typically cross our desk, and where each one lands. Should yours not resemble any of them, we’ll happily price it as its own package.

  • A three-page datasheet for a supplier in Stuttgart Desk Brief$545
  • A US utility application entering the European phase Filing Package$1,865
  • A JPO office action response, under 2,500 words Desk Brief$545
  • A 40-page operator manual bound for Germany and Japan Manual Programme + 1 language$7,250
  • Only a glossary, so your in-house team can translate Glossary build$385
  • A translation someone else did that now needs certifying Review & certify$118 / 1,000 words

Send the file today; your price comes back before 6pm.

Quoting costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We’ll gladly sign your NDA before you send a page.

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