Official Journal of the European Patent Office
Encyclopedia
The Official Journal of the European Patent Office is a month
ly 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.
are published in the Official Journal:
Other decisions are published on the EPO web site.
Month
A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which was first used and invented in Mesopotamia, as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are cognates. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of moon phases; such months are synodic months and last approximately...
ly trilingual publication
Publication
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of the European Patent Office
European Patent Organisation
The European Patent Organisation is a public international organisation created in 1977 by its contracting states to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention of 1973...
(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
European Patent Convention
The Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, commonly known as the European Patent Convention , is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted...
(EPC)] or its implementation".
The Official Journal is published in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, 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
ONLINE
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.
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
Foreword
A foreword is a piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book's primary author or the story the book tells...
by Johannes Bob van Benthem
Johannes Bob van Benthem
Dr. Johannes Bob van Benthem was a Dutch lawyer. He was the first president of the European Patent Office, from November 1, 1977 to April 30, 1985....
, the first President of the EPO.
Publication of decisions of the Boards of Appeal
Only specific decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the EPOAppeal procedure before the European Patent Office
Decisions of the first instances of the European Patent Office can be appealed, i.e. challenged, before the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, in a judicial procedure , as opposed to an administrative procedure. These boards act as the final instances in the granting and opposition procedures before the...
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.
Other decisions are published on the EPO web site.
See also
- PCT NewsletterPCT NewsletterThe PCT Newsletter is a monthly publication of the World Intellectual Property Organization . It contains "up-to-date news about the Patent Cooperation Treaty ", which provides a system for filing international applications. The PCT Newsletter is published in English only...
- List of intellectual property law journals
- Official Journal of the European UnionOfficial Journal of the European UnionThe Official Journal of the European Union is the official gazette of record for the European Union . It is published every working day in all of the official languages of the member states. Only legal acts published in the Official Journal are binding.It was first published on 30 December 1952 as...
External links
- Official Journals on the EPO web site