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Overview · Filed: Nov 28, 2025

UPC_CFI_1771/2025

SECURITY MODULE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND MONITORING THE DATA TRAFFIC OF A PERSONAL COMPUTER

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Parties

Claimants

  • PAPST LICENSING GmbH & Co. KG
Reps: Jan Gigerich (IPCGS Gigerich Sedlmaier); Roman Sedlmaier (IPCGS Gigerich Sedlmaier)

Respondents

  • Name not displayed for GDPR reasons
Reps: António Campinos (EPO (President))
Judges

French-seated division — individual judges anonymized.

  • Panel member (anonymized)Standing Judge / Judge-Rapporteur
Patents
  • EP3327608
  • EP 3 327 608
CPC codes: G06F21/123, G06F21/71, G06F21/606, G06F2221/2101, G06F21/566, H04L63/145, G06F21/85, G06F21/554, G06F21/109, G06F21/575

Sector: Computing & AI

Outcome
Dismissed
Filed: Nov 28, 2025
First decided: Dec 30, 2025
Language: German

Decision by the Paris Central Division (acting as administrative court under Rule 97 RoP) dismissing PAPST LICENSING's application to annul the EPO's decision rejecting its request for unitary effect for EP 3 327 608. The court upheld the EPO's refusal on the basis that the patent did not designate Malta (a participating member state at the time of grant), and unitary effect requires designation of all participating member states as per Art. 3(1) of Regulation 1257/2012. Key holdings: unitary effect tied to grant, not filing; territorial protection covers all participating states regardless of use; EPO's rejection was mandatory under Rule 7(2) DOEPS; proportionality and fundamental rights arguments rejected.

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