Official Journal of the European Patent Office
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The Official Journal of the European Patent Office is a monthly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains "notices and information of a general character issued by the President of the European Patent Office, as well as any other information relevant to [the European Patent Convention (EPC)] or its implementation" ().
The Official Journal is published in German, English and French, the three official languages of the EPO (). The three texts coexist in the same issue of the journal. The Official Journal is published both on paper and online.
The first issue of the Official Journal of the EPO was published on December 1977, two months after the European Patent Convention entered into force on October 7, 1977. The first issue starts with a foreword by Johannes Bob van Benthem, the first President of the EPO.
Publication of decisions of the Boards of Appeal
Only specific decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO are published in the Official Journal:
- the decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (in practice, opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal are published as well);
- individual decisions of the boards of appeal on the initiative of the board concerned. [#endnote_notvicepresident]
References
- ↑ Notice from the Vice-President Directorate-General 3 dated 3 July 2002 concerning the publication of decisions of the boards of appeal of the European Patent Office, OJ 8-9/2002, p. 442 [link]
See also
External links
- [Official Journals since 1997] on the EPO web site
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