Foreign Language Capabilities

Here at Cardinal, we are prepared to support your goals to research and reach beyond U.S. borders. Our standard research coverage includes English-based patent and non-patent literature, as well as English abstracts of many foreign language patents and published applications.

You may opt to add Foreign-language specialists to a project team to perform searches on foreign patent office databases and review full text of non-English documents.

These specialists have access to the following foreign patent sources:

Members of our research staff are fluent in major languages, including:

  • Derwent WPI (33 million patents from 41 countries/organizations)
  • INPADOC (62 million patents from 80 countries/organizations)
  • European
  • WIPO
  • British
  • Canadian
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Chinese
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Chinese
  • Korean
  • German
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Punjabi/Urdu
  • Italian
  • Swedish
  • Farsi
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Amharic