The Official Journal of the European Patent Office (OJ EPO) 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".
[3] The first issue of the Official Journal of the EPO was published in 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.
[3] Only specific decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO are published in the Official Journal: Other decisions are published on the EPO web site.