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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.

Case

Fasken v Getemed

2022 TMOB 217

Reagan Seidler

November 19, 2022

Successfully defended international client’s trademark registration in Canada.

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Reagan Seidler
Associate
- Smart & Biggar LP
- T:647.370.4149
- rseidler@smartbiggar.ca
- Toronto
Reagan Seidler
Associate
Scholar. Fighter. Copyrighter.Reagan is a trademark and copyright lawyer who represents clients through the full lifecycle of their IP journey. Whether helping a business select a new brand or enforci...
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Client Success

Fluid Energy Group v Exaltexx Inc.
2020 FC 81
Steven Garland, Theodore Sum, Laura Easton and Matthew Norton
January 20, 2020
Successfully represented the defendant Exaltexx in obtaining an interlocutory injunction restraining the plaintiff from making certain statements or threats to suppliers of Exaltexx during the pendenc...
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Nova Chemicals Corporation v The Dow Chemical Company et al
2020 FCA 141
Steven Garland, Jeremy Want and Daniel Davies
September 15, 2020
Successfully represented Dow Chemical before the Federal Court of Appeal, affirming the largest reported Canadian patent infringement award in history.
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Loblaws Inc v Pampered Chef et al
2021 FCA 29
Steven Garland, Mark Evans and Graham Hood
February 15, 2021
Successfully represented Pampered Chef et al before the FCA in having affirmed the trial decision dismissing allegations of trademark infringement brought by Canada’s largest retailer.
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