Patent Translation

Rates and Turnaround Time

We provide Standard and Express services. The Express service is roughly twice as fast as the Standard service. Please contact us if you need your document even sooner. Please also read the important notes at the bottom of this page.

Translation Rates
Language	Standard Service	Express Service
English to Japanese	from ¥23/word	+45%
Japanese to English	from ¥27/word	+45%

Turnaround Time (business days)
Number of words	Standard Service	Express Service
1~4000	6~10 days	3~5 days
4001~8000	10~14 days	5~7 days
8001~	14~ days	7~ days

Notes

These rates are based on the number of English words, in either the source or target document.
The number of words is obtained using Microsoft Word's word count feature. Hyphenated compounds are counted as individual words.
There is a 600-word minimum document length. (Shorter documents will be charged as for 600 words.)
Any text in drawings or tables to to be translated will also be included in the word count.
These rates are for translation only. Work for producing drawings, page layout, document formatting and so on will incur an additional charge.
The turnaround times are in business days and do not include weekends, public holidays, and company holidays.