Key legal question
Whether the appellant could replace the original 9-page reply text with a much shorter, materially different version on reform appeal.
Extracted holding
No. The new text was not a mere reduction of the original conclusions but a fundamentally different claim, so it could not be raised for the first time before the Federal Court.
Extracted reasoning
In a reform appeal, new conclusions are barred; only reductions are allowed. A version that changes the object of the dispute beyond the text submitted to the cantonal court is inadmissible.