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

[David Boundy]

Тупой трах дурок   (First time I've used my college Russian in ten years.)
What am I doing wrong?

I went to patents.google.com

I put  CN201811352821A into the google search bar.

I get the google page.   In "External links" I click "espacenet"  I get to
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/065695745/publication/CN109489160A?q=pn%3DCN109489160A

Same thing.  For "Bibliographic data" I get the red patent translate button.

But when I click on "Description" or "Original Document" the button
disappears.

Same behavior in Firefox and Edge.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM Timothy Snowden <tdsnowden at outlook.com>
wrote:

> I got there by going to Google Patents and then clicking the "Espacenet"
> link. Beyond that, I always struggle remembering what the different
> 'espacenet' vs EPO register vs EPO global dossier systems do/mean
> On 10/28/2025 4:30 PM, David Boundy wrote:
>
> 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?"
>>
>>
>>
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