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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.

Events

Smart & Biggar partners attend the 99th PTMG Group Conference in Berlin

October 01, 2019

Gunars Gaikis and Daphne Lainson, will attend the 99th Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG) Conference – “Pharmaceutical Trademarks @ Checkpoint Charlie” in Berlin, Germany from October 2-4, 2019.

The conference features a distinguished group of speakers who will shape conversations and provide the benefit of their views on a wide range of subjects all relevant to the industry today. Delegates will discuss challenges and opportunities in pharmaceutical trademarks and explore hot industry topics, including the regulatory status, health claims and trademarks of botanicals, software disputes in the pharmaceutical Industry and USCMA.

Founded in 1970, PTMG is a family-like group of specialized trade mark professionals, with a high representation from the pharmaceutical industry. Today, PTMG is a lively organisation bringing together a group of highly dedicated trade mark professionals with a passion for, as well as experience in, the pharmaceutical field.

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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BIO 2023: Connect with Smart & Biggar’s leading Canadian Life Sciences team

Lei Liu, Mark Pidkowich and David Schwartz
May 19, 2023
Smart & Biggar's leading Life Sciences team will be attending this year’s Bio International Convention in Boston, and look forward to reconnecting with colleagues and clients from around the world...
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Smart & Biggar team sponsors and attends the IPIC 2023 Annual Conference

Chris Collett, Daniel Davies, Meika Ellis, Stephen Martin and Reagan Seidler
October 04, 2023
Smart & Biggar is proud to provide our continued support for the upcoming Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) Annual Conference, taking place in person on October 11-13, 2023.
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Smart & Biggar joins IP leaders at the AIPLA Annual Meeting 2023 in Washington

Marco Clementoni, Daphne Lainson, Stephen Martin, Mark Sajewycz, David Schwartz and Matthew Zischka
October 13, 2023
Six Smart & Biggar team members from across Canada will represent the firm at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Annual Meeting, from October 19-21, at the Gaylord National...
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