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

[Peter Medley]

Having had this problem recently, on the description page, you need to select the original language of the reference. In the below screenshot, I selected the “JA” button for Japanese. Then, when I select the Patent Translate button, I get the red translate button.

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

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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