People

Smart & Biggar is Canada’s largest and highest ranked intellectual property firm. Our reputation and strength is a measure of the quality of our people, and we are proud to have the broadest and deepest bench for IP in Canada. With over 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents, we offer legal expertise and technological knowledge across a wide range of industries and scientific and engineering disciplines, with leaders in every field.

Services

Today’s fast-paced innovation economy demands a higher level of expertise and attention to detail when it comes to IP. Our highly skilled team of lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents advise clients on a wide variety of strategic business, brand and technology matters leveraging their deep expertise in intellectual property to help them succeed with IP.

Industries

Across all industries, intellectual property is at the heart of innovation and is key to accelerating business value and growth. Developing a clear IP strategy and knowing how to tap and leverage IP to align with business goals can unlock competitive advantages and make the difference between industry leaders and followers.

Insights

At the forefront of IP in Canada, and actively involved as leaders in industry committees and associations, we stay up-to-date and proactively report on the latest developments in intellectual property law in Canada and around the world. Breaking IP news, changes in the law, important new decisions, and information on key IP issues are provided here through our IP publications and resources.

Careers

Many of the world's most commercially important innovators and most prominent brands trust Smart & Biggar to protect and enforce their IP and to provide them with strategic IP counsel. We have developed a reputation as a firm of talented lawyers and patent and trademark agents with integrity, business savvy and tremendous acumen. That’s why we look for the brightest people with combined talent and strengths in law, business, science and technology.

Who we are

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property, and with over 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents in five offices, we are also Canada’s largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas.

Rankings & Recognition

Acritas Stars recognizes 6 Smart & Biggar partners as client service leaders

September 17, 2019

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that 6 of our partners have been named by Acritas as stand-out lawyers in the 2019 Acritas Stars survey of senior in-house counsel.

Congratulations to Mark Evans, Steven Garland, Yoon Kang, Elliott Simcoe, Theodore Sum and Alice Tseng for being recognized by their clients as among the most highly regarded lawyers in the world.

Acritas Stars are lawyers that clients can rely on as go-to advisors on legal matters based on their high quality of work, business and commercial savvy and their ability to translate legal advice into practical and pragmatic solutions. They demonstrate a complete understanding of their client’s business and industry, are approachable and respond to requests quickly, deliver on deadlines, and build strong and long-lasting relationships with their clients.

Exclusively available to in-house counsel by subscription, the Acritas Stars database features over 10,000 client-nominated, stand-out lawyers in private practice. The survey polls over 4,300 senior in-house counsel across the globe to voluntarily nominate and name excellent private practice lawyers who they have recently worked with.

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property and technology law and have been serving clients for over a century.

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