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

Smart & Biggar short-listed for seven ‘Women in Business Law’ awards by Euromoney LMG

May 04, 2018

Smart & Biggar announced today that the firm has been shortlisted for seven awards by Euromoney Legal Media Group for their Women in Business Law Awards, to be held in New York on Thursday, June 7, 2018.

Three partners are nominated for individual awards recognizing the ‘best lawyer’ in each of the following practice areas:

Best in Life Sciences	Best in Patent	Rising Star: IP
Yoon Kang	Nancy Pei	Urszula Wojtyra

In addition Smart & Biggar was nominated for four firm-level awards recognizing the ‘best firm’:

Best Canadian Firm
Best Gender Diversity Initiative by National firm (North America),
Best Firm for Diversity (North America)
Best National Firm for Talent Management (North America).

The individuals and firms nominated in the Women in Business Law Awards are based on preliminary research and submissions. Read the full list of nominees for 2018.

Learn more about Smart & Biggar’s recent accolades.

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Smart & Biggar is Canada's largest firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology 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. For more information, please visit smart-biggar.ca

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Smart & Biggar short-listed for seven ‘Women in Business Law’ awards by Euromoney LMG