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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.

Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar shortlisted for 5 awards by LMG Life Sciences

July 30, 2019

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that three of our partners have been shortlisted for individual awards by LMG Life Sciences, and the firm is also shortlisted for two firm-level awards. The LMG Life Sciences Awards recognize the leading attorneys, firms and in-house counsel teams that have played a significant role in the life sciences industry over the past year.

Gunars Gaikis is once again nominated for Canadian Patent Litigation Attorney of the Year. Gunars, who received this award in 2018, is described by clients and peers as a “seasoned gladiator” and “one of the best patent litigators since the industry began.”

Daphne Lainson, who leads Smart & Biggar’s Life Sciences practice group, is shortlisted for Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Attorney of the Year. Daphne has been described as having “fantastic legal and business acumen, which she uses to provide thorough, best-in-class legal advice.”

Alice Tseng is nominated as Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year. Alice co-leads the firm’s Regulatory and Marketing & Advertising practice groups and is admired as “a very dedicated regulatory practitioner.”

On a firm level, Smart & Biggar is shortlisted for both Canadian Patent Contentious Firm of the Year and Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Firm of the Year. We were honoured to receive both these awards in 2018.

Winners will be announced on September 18, 2019 at the LMG Life Sciences Awards ceremony in New York City.

Smart & Biggar is recognised as Canada’s largest and leading firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. As leaders in intellectual property and technology law Smart & Biggar has been serving clients for over a century. For more information, please visit smartbiggar.ca.

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