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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

Expert Guides Lists Eight Smart & Biggar professionals in 2017 edition of the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners

March 20, 2017

Smart & Biggar announced today that eight of the firm’s lawyers have been recognized as leaders in the field of patent law in the 2017 edition of Euromoney's Expert Guides: Patents.

Since 1994, the Expert Guides have identified leading legal practitioners considered by clients and peers to be the best in their field. Expert Guides: Patents is based on the results of over 4,000 questionnaires completed by senior practitioners and in-house counsel in over 80 jurisdictions.

To learn more about our other recent accolades, click here.

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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.

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François Guay
Partner
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Trademark Agent
- T:514.954.3531
- fguay@smartbiggar.ca
- Montréal
Steven Garland
Partner
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:613.232.2558
- sbgarland@smartbiggar.ca
- Ottawa
- Calgary
Jeremy Want
Partner
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:613.232.2526
- jwwant@smartbiggar.ca
- Ottawa
Daphne Lainson
Partner, Chair of the Firm
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:613.232.2572
- dclainson@smartbiggar.ca
- Ottawa
Elliott Simcoe
Partner
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:613.232.2560
- esimcoe@smartbiggar.ca
- Ottawa
Gunars Gaikis
Of Counsel
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:416.595.2755
- ggaikis@smartbiggar.ca
- Toronto
Yoon Kang
Partner
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:416.595.2756
- ykang@smartbiggar.ca
- Toronto

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