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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.

Speaking Engagement

Jean-Sébastien Dupont and Graham Hood provide professional insight at Canadian Lawyer Young Lawyers Summit

November 23, 2020

Smart & Biggar partners Jean-Sébastien Dupont and Graham Hood will both virtually participate in the Canadian Lawyer Young Lawyers Summit on Tuesday, November 24.

Montreal litigation partner Jean-Sébastien, a recently recognized Lexpert Rising Star, will be featured on the panel “A Conversation with Tomorrow’s Legal Leaders: What Does in Mean to be an Effective Lawyer in 2021?” Alongside other Rising Stars, Jean-Sébastien will discuss the new skillsets young lawyers need to effectively serve clients in an era of rapid change in the legal profession. This conversation will explore how lawyers can adapt to be agile and innovative while meeting clients evolving expectations, and what young lawyers can do to prepare for the future of the profession.

Graham Hood, a trademark partner based in Toronto, will sit on the panel “Top 10 Things to Make Your Day More Productive in an Age of Constant Disruption and Remote Work” to discuss ways to maximize time and resources to manage daily tasks and meet increasing client needs. Panelists will cover how to focus internal processes and setting client expectations, how to utilize time and how to harness technology to increase efficiency. They will share key lessons from real-life examples that can be leveraged immediately.

The Young Lawyers Summit provides associates, partners and others in law firm leadership with practical insights and ideas on common challenges, issues and obstacles young lawyers face as they grow their professional profiles and legal practice skills and advance their careers.

The full conference is available here.

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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