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

Tue Oct 28 21:54:35 UTC 2025

That did it!   Thank you!

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM Timothy Snowden <tdsnowden at outlook.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
> 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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