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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

Firm achieves top ranking in the International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers 2012 edition

May 03, 2012

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh is pleased to announce that in the 2012 edition of the International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers, the firm has more lawyers listed than any other firm in Canada. We are proud of this recognition and wish to congratulate our professionals who have been recognized:

John Bochnovic – "undoubtedly one of Canada’s finest patent lawyers"
Gunars A. Gaikis – "first choice"
Steven B. Garland – "an accomplished mediator as well as a great litigator"
François Guay – "a very tough opponent who commands a lot of respect"
Michael D. Manson – "'extremely highly thought of' by peers"

Since 1996, Who's Who Legal has identified the leading practitioners in business law. Nominees were selected based on comprehensive, independent surveys completed by both general counsel and patent lawyers worldwide.

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Firm achieves top ranking in the International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers 2012 edition