patent translator fails to catch data from new EPO search website

Rowan.YAO · November 30, 2019

the current patent translator fails to catch data from new EPO search website. will the translator update?

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/058009139/publication/CN106393094A?q=CN106393094

adamsmith · December 1, 2019

(we're working on a fix)

Rowan.YAO · December 10, 2019

@adamsmith thank you very much.

zuphilip · December 27, 2019

This is now fixed — thanks for reporting. Your Zotero Connector should auto-update within 24 hours, or you can update manually by clicking Update Translators in the Advanced pane of the Zotero Connector preferences.

Any further problems let us know & thanks for reporting.

Rowan.YAO · January 7, 2020

Very thanks for the fix and the translator now works good on EPO except that the Zotero could not do as on Google Patent to catch the URL nor 'find the available PDFs' automatically.
Would the little problem above can be fixed? Thank you.

zuphilip · January 7, 2020

The URL is always saved as a link and if there is a stable URL, like the bookmark functionality in the old design, then that one is used in the URL field. However, in the new design I saw only search urls e.g. https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/058009139/publication/CN106393094A?q=CN106393094 which leads to the same document as https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/058009139/publication/CN106393094A?q=CN106393094A as well as many more variants. Therefore I decided that might not be what one would want for citations. Is there a stable and unique URL in the new design as well?

I guess you wanted to have the original document as a PDF attachment; is that correct? In the new design one can find this download option under the three dots menu. However, this is not a simple link and therefore more involved to do in the translators.

zuphilip · January 7, 2020

Okay, I spend some time (again) but receiving the PDF seems too complicated for me.

Rowan.YAO · January 8, 2020

@zuphilip very thanks for your effort, and it's not a big problem to get PDF manually. thank you.