ORD 42503/2024

—·EP2331036: DEVICE FOR TREATING NIGHT TIME BREATHING PROBLEMS

Case details: Status
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Action
Procedural application
Category
Case Management Orders
Parties: Claimants
Not identified (individual claimant, name redacted)
Reps: C. Ronse; K. Claeyé; M.w. Rijsdijk; D.e. Colenbrander
Respondents
OrthoApnea S.L.
Vivisol B BV
Reps: Van den Horst; Niemeijer
Division: Brussels LD
Judges: Samuel Granata · Presiding Judge / Judge-Rapporteur
Margot Kokke · Legally Qualified Judge
Andras Kupecz · Legally Qualified Judge
Technology: Pharmaceutical & Medical
Language: —
First decided: Jul 19, 2024

Decisions

2024-07-19
Generic Order
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.
Legal issues:Review of judge-rapporteur order (R. 333 RoP)Admissibility of equivalence arguments introduced in replyFundamental change of claim vs. new argument (R. 263.1 RoP)

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