RWS provides specialist intellectual property (IP) translation and information services. We have over 40 years' experience in IP and around 350 employees worldwide, with an annual turnover of over £30 million.

Our Translation Division is the largest patent translation specialist in the world, annually translating more than 30,000 patents and IP-related documents from production sites in the United Kingdom and Japan . All translations are carried out by subject specialists who have been additionally trained for patent work.

Our Information Division locates, analyzes and processes international IP and other technical information, conducting over 5000 search assignments per year. It also publishes PatBase, the world's largest full text database organized by patent families.

Our clients include law and patent agent firms and the patent departments of large corporates from around the world, e.g.

US
3M
Honeywell
AT&T
Ford

Europe
Shell
Siemens
ESA European Space Agency
Air Liquide

Japan
Nissan
Fujitsu
Toyota
Brother