and commercial translations patent searches patent database founded 1961 as woolcott & co. headquarters chalfont st peter buckinghamshire u.k. key people andrew brode chairman number of employees 600 parent rws holdings plc website http www.rws.com rws group provides intellectual property translation filing and search services and technical and commercial translation and localisation . contents 1 history 2 locations 3 services 4 awards 5 news archive 6 references history edit with roots dating back more than 50 years the rws group was created from a merger between m.h. randall & partners a specialist translation company and woolcott & co a specialist patent and technical information searching company in 1982 . 1 rws translations ltd and rws information ltd were iso 9000 accredited in 1992 . in 2005 it acquired eclipse translations a company formed in december 1996 and now operating as a limited company within the rws group . 2 locations edit rws group headquarters are based in chalfont st peter buckinghamshire uk . its information division is based in tavistock square london . subsidiary companies include eclipse translations based in alnwick northumberland pharmaquest based in banbury oxfordshire rws group deutschland gmbh in berlin rws group switzerland llc in basel and inovia based in new york . the group has production sites in germany japan and china and offices in france sweden switzerland and the usa . services edit rws is a leading provider of intellectual property support services and high level technical legal and financial translation services . it is the market leader in patent translations 3 translating over 65 000 patents and intellectual property related documents each year . it addresses a blue chip multinational client base from europe north america japan and china active in patent filing in the medical pharmaceutical chemical aerospace defence automotive and telecoms industries as well as patent agents acting on behalf of such clients . the group has two principal business activities ; translations which incorporates patent commercial and technical translation services and information which includes a comprehensive range of patent search retrieval and monitoring services as well as patbase 1 developed in partnership with minesoft ltd 2 a searchable commercial patent database available as a subscription service . the subsidiaries in germany and switzerland are leading providers for translation localization and terminology services for technical commercial and legal material . elipse works in translation the principal area of activity is translation . eclipse services contracts with a number of government agencies large corporate clients and smes both locally and throughout the americas and europe . eclipse translates into over 200 language combinations interpretation eclipse provides face to face conference video and telephone interpretation services in areas such as business social medical court and police localisation of software documentation and website seo optimization language training solution incorporating a long term strategy of language training provision and business culture training other communication support services such as braille bsl etc. awards edit the group has won the queen s award for enterprise international trade 2015 for the fifth time ; 2015 2009 2004 1987 and 1984 4 eclipse winner of the regional final of the ne business awards 2007 in the services category 5 news archive edit eclipse translations ltd sponsor of the northumberland coastal run 6 references edit http www.rws.com en company history.html rws group website the top 35 language service providers common sense advisory may 2010 http www.businesslink.gov.uk bdotg action layer topicid 1084953735 & furlname queensawards & furlparam queensawards & ref & domain www.businesslink.gov.uk . north east business awards regional winners 2007 northumberland gazette coastal run retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rws group & oldid 739518365 categories translation companiespatent law organizationscompanies based in buckinghamshirecompanies established in 1961 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 september 2016 at 04 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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