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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

Smart & Biggar named “IP Boutique Law Firm of the Year” at the inaugural Canadian Law Awards

October 06, 2020

Smart & Biggar is honoured to be the recipient of the ‘IP Boutique Law Firm of the Year’ award at the inaugural Canadian Law Awards, presented virtually on October 6, 2020.

We are proud to be recognized as the Canadian leader in Intellectual Property law, for the quality of advice and high standard of service we provide to our clients. This award reflects the dedication and commitment of everyone throughout our firm to helping our clients protect and commercialize their most valuable business assets, ideas and innovations.

Smart & Biggar was also short-listed for ‘Diversity Initiative of the Year’ and honoured alongside several firms in the industry with an excellence award for our firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive workplace for our team, through our diversity leadership and coaching programs.

The inaugural Canadian Law Awards honour and identify excellence in the legal profession, among law firms and in-house legal teams. The awards are presented by Lexpert and supported by Canadian Lawyer and InHouse.

Congratulations to all the law firms, lawyers and in-house counsel who were recognized today!

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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Smart & Biggar named “IP Boutique Law Firm of the Year” at the inaugural Canadian Law Awards