PCT Translation Division

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Translation Division is responsible for delivering high-quality publication-ready translation in relation to patent applications filed under the PCT.

Our activities include:

• the translation of scientific, technical and legal documents, mainly the abstracts of international patent applications and scientific, technical and legal reports relating to the patentability of inventions;
• ensuring the quality of the resulting translations while creating, leveraging and publishing technical terminology and creating other translation resources;
• providing and maintaining translation and terminology management systems and other computer-assisted translation applications to WIPO’s translation areas;
• enabling coordinated localization activities in other parts of the Organization across the six languages of the UN and ten languages of the PCT;
• performing translation of documents and publications into Japanese and Korean;
• performing other PCT-related translation as required.