Class actions
2023 Annual Litigation Trends Survey
Global | Publication | January 18, 2023
Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2023 Litigation Trends Survey reveals that class action activity and risk parallel the broader litigation landscape in key areas.
Employment and labor marked the most common type of class action that respondents encountered in 2022. It was also the leading area of future concern, followed by cybersecurity, data protection and data privacy. ESG ranked third.
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Benjamin Moore redetermination: Canadian Commissioner of Patents refuses computer-implemented invention patent applications a second time
The Commissioner of Patents has once again determined that two patent applications for computer-implemented inventions filed by Benjamin Moore & Co. are invalid for seeking to claim unpatentable subject matter.
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PAB refuses financial-related software invention patent application for unpatentable subject matter
In 2025 CACP 7 / Commissioner’s Decision 1688, the Patent Appeal Board refused Edward Jones & Co.’s patent application because the claims in the application were not patentable subject matter, as they were directed to subject matter prohibited under subsection 27(8) (mere scientific principle or abstract theorem) of the Patent Act.
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