The company
A professional translator conceived and founded our translation company in 1997. Our administrative staff also includes translators. Our focus is on quality, consistency, timely service and appropriate terminology. We have invested in a highly specialized team that works alongside our translators so you receive the best possible final product. We are led by translators. Everything is built around professional translators. Our craft is translating. Our enterprise is translation, as is our livelihood. We are your Translators.
Dhalia Rajão - Founder
Professional translator graduated in Modern Languages, specialized in technical and legal translations with over 30 years’ experience.
Official Industrial Property Agent in Brazil. She has taken a range of translation courses and has worked as an Intellectual Property Professional for 15 years.
R&A Translators® (started in 1997 as Rajão and Athayde Translators® then shortened its name in 2020) has always realized that good translations don’t look as if they have been translated. Far from it. It is when you transpose the cultural background to the target language, at the same time respecting the linguistic preferences of each reader. It is the text which reads clearly and flows naturally.
Over 30 years ago, still a user of translation services and while reviewing technical and legal texts, Dhalia Rajão noticed that the words flowed nicely in some texts, while in others there were apparent errors which mangled the author's goals. She realized that some translations were mere reproductions of the original, without any commitment to the content of the document itself. They were so literal, that it made the text almost unintelligible. Others, in turn, captured the author's idea and transferred properly into Portuguese, thus providing a broad, open perception of its content.
Through her vast experience in both translation and Intellectual Property, Dhalia saw the need for a specialized translation company that could offer quality and punctuality, focusing on the accuracy of the terms used. In 1995 she embarked upon a self-employed career. She worked on several large projects with tight deadlines, leading virtual work groups and organizing teams at different geographical locations.
Next, a new stage begins: setting up the company.
Why R&A Translators®?
Your invention or discovery needs a good lawyer to take care of the legal and administrative procedures imposed by each country’s patent offices.
The safest and most effective way to translate your invention or discovery is through a translator specialized in patents.
The R&A Group understands that loopholes in a translation may lead to your patent application being rejected.
We work tirelessly to maintain the true scientific personality of your invention.
Only translators who faithfully reproduce your idea will let lawyers analyze the strategies you originally designed, and which are often influenced by foreignism generated by successive translations, one language over the other.
Demand a translator specialized in Intellectual Property, one who knows the legal and semantic intricacies to translate what will become your Property.
