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

[David Boundy]

Grrr.   Yes, that's definitely different than where I am now.  How do I get
there?

I hate software taht has this kind of gotcha.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM Timothy Snowden via Patentpractice <
patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> 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?"
>
>
>
>
> --
> Patentpractice mailing list
> Patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com
>
> http://oppedahl-lists.com/mailman/listinfo/patentpractice_oppedahl-lists.com
>


-- 


<https://www.iam-media.com/strategy300/individuals/david-boundy>

*David Boundy *| Partner | Potomac Law Group, PLLC

P.O. Box 590638, Newton, MA  02459

Tel (646) 472-9737 | Fax: (202) 318-7707

*dboundy at potomaclaw.com <dboundy at potomaclaw.com>* | *www.potomaclaw.com
<http://www.potomaclaw.com>*

Articles at http://ssrn.com/author=2936470 <http://ssrn.com/author=2936470>
<https://www.keynect.us/requestCardAccess/USA500DBOUN?>

Click here to add me to your contacts.
<https://www.keynect.us/requestCardAccess/USA500DBOUN?>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://oppedahl-lists.com/pipermail/patentpractice_oppedahl-lists.com/attachments/20251028/5516380a/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 7Jr8RRzvamrDCEXq.png
Type: image/png
Size: 303822 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://oppedahl-lists.com/pipermail/patentpractice_oppedahl-lists.com/attachments/20251028/5516380a/attachment.png>