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

[Timothy Snowden]

Do you see the little EN and ZH boxes up in the top-right of the text 
box? Click ZH -> then after it reloads Patent Translate appears in the 
top right of the larger window

On 10/28/2025 4:44 PM, David Boundy wrote:
> 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 <http://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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