ORD_42503/2024

The Brussels Local Division (full panel) dismissed the respondents' application for review under R. 333 RoP of an earlier judge-rapporteur order that had denied their objection against the claimant's equivalence arguments introduced in the reply. The panel upheld the judge-rapporteur's finding that introducing an infringement argument based on equivalence in the reply did not constitute a fundamental new ground requiring prior leave under R. 263.1 RoP.