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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 180 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 180 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents in six offices, we are also Canada’s largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas.

Rankings & Recognition

24 Smart & Biggar lawyers and agents recognized in the 2024 Who’s Who Legal: IP

September 26, 2024

Smart & Biggar is proud to announce that 24 of our practitioners have been featured in the 2024 Who’s Who Legal: IP - Canada, which recognizes the top lawyers and agents in trademarks and patents.

Congratulations to each of our recognized lawyers and agents:

Global Elite Thought Leaders

Janice Bereskin – Trademark agents & attorneys
Christian Bolduc – Trademarks
Mark Evans – Trademarks
Micheline Gravelle – Trademark agents & attorneys
Philip Lapin – Trademarks

Thought Leaders

Stephen Beney - Patent Agents & Attorneys
Patricia Folkins - Patent Agents & Attorneys
François Guay – Trademarks, Patents
John Knox – Trademarks, Patent Agents & Attorneys
Robert Storey – Patent Agents & Attorneys
Jane Sarjeant – Trademark Agents & Attorneys
Matthew Zischka – Patents

Patents

Ken Bousfield
Noel Courage
Sheldon Hamilton
Yoon Kang
Daphne Lainson
Donald MacOdrum
Daphne Maravei
Nancy Pei
David Schwartz
Elliott Simcoe
Alistair Simpson
Joshua Spicer
Theodore Sum
Jeremy Want
Urszula Wojtyra

Patent Agents and Attorneys

Jeff Leuschner
Philip Mendes da Costa
David St-Martin

Trademarks

Daniel Bereskin
Mark Biernacki
Mina Chana
Brigitte Chan
Graham Hood
Jamie-Lynn Kraft
Francois Larose
Kwan T. Loh
Daphne Maravei
Mark Robbins
Kohji Suzuki

The full list of 2024 Who’s Who Legal: IP - Canada is available to view online.

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24 Smart & Biggar lawyers and agents recognized in the 2024 Who’s Who Legal: IP