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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

7 Smart & Biggar partners named “Life Sciences Stars” by LMG Life Sciences 2019

October 03, 2019

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that seven partners have been named a “Life Sciences Star” across two practice areas: Intellectual Property and Regulatory, in the 2019 edition of LMG Life Sciences.

Congratulations to Gunars Gaikis, Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton, Yoon Kang, Nancy Pei and David Schwartz for their recognition in Intellectual Property and Alice Tseng for Regulatory.

In LMG Life Sciences’ analysis of Smart & Biggar, the firm is lauded as a “premier IP firm in Canada with significant expertise in patent litigation and counseling” and acclaimed for being "preeminent in patent prosecution."

In addition to the directory rankings, the publication holds annual awards, which were presented at an award dinner in New York on September 18, 2019. The LMG Life Sciences Awards recognizes the leading attorneys, firms and in-house counsel teams that have played a significant role in the life sciences industry over the past year. Smart & Biggar is honoured to share that Toronto partner, Alice Tseng, was selected as “Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year.”

In addition to Alice Tseng’s win, Gunars Gaikis was nominated for “Canadian Patent Litigation Attorney of the Year”, Daphne Lainson was shortlisted for “Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Attorney of the Year” and on the firm level, Smart & Biggar was 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.

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.

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