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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

Alice Tseng is awarded ‘Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year’ by LMG Life Sciences

September 19, 2019

On September 18th, 2019 the Legal Media Group (LMG) Life Sciences Awards took place at Essex House in New York, NY.

Smart & Biggar is honoured to share that Toronto partner, Alice Tseng, was selected as “Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year.”

Alice is a powerhouse in regulatory and marketing/advertising matters, earning acclaim from clients and peers as a “life sciences star” and a “true expert with years of experience”.

Recognized as one of Canada’s leading regulatory lawyers, she has more than two decades of experience adeptly counselling clients in highly regulated industries like pharmaceutical, cannabis, food, medical devices and cosmetics. Informed by her expertise as a practising pharmacist, Alice has advised many pharmaceutical companies on important issues encompassing biologics, controlled drugs and substances, immunotherapy, orphan drugs, vaccines, OTC drugs and natural health products.

The LMG Life Sciences Awards recognizes the year’s top firms and legal professionals operating in the life science market. The awards are based on research conducted for the 2019 edition of LMG Life Sciences.

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property 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.

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Alice Tseng
Principal
- Smart & Biggar LLP
- T:647.798.0025
- atseng@smartbiggar.ca
- Toronto

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