[Patentpractice] How do I get the good machine translation of a Chinese patent from Espacenet?

[Timothy Snowden]

BTW - you have to click on the part you want to generate the translation 
for. Abstract shows by default, you have to click on the left for the 
"Description" or "Claims" to translate those separately.

On 10/28/2025 4:24 PM, Timothy Snowden wrote:
>
> I just confirmed on Edge -- not sure if it may be that you're on a 
> different part of the several different EPO portals
>
> Here's a screenshot:
>
> On 10/28/2025 4:12 PM, David Boundy via Patentpractice wrote:
>> I can get the instant translate.  But it's almost illegible.  I want 
>> the "latest technology" translation that takes a minute or two.  I 
>> think I'm following the directions:
>>
>> First choose the part you want to translate. I went to the CN patent 
>> I want to translate, and then in the two rows I select "Original 
>> Document" and "Description"
>>
>> Select the target language and then click the red patent translate 
>> button. At the top right corner, I select "English V"  But I don't 
>> see a "red patent translate button" anywhere.
>>
>>
>> I've tried a bunch of different things, but I can't get a "red patent 
>> translate button"  (I'd be content with blue too.  Blue is my 
>> favorite color.)  I can get the "red patent translate button" for the 
>> front page bibliographic data, but when I click on "Description" or 
>> "Original document" the "red patent translate button" disappears.  
>> How do I get to a "patent translate button" (of any color) for the 
>> "Description?"
>>
>>
>>
>>
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