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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.

Rankings & Recognition

14 Smart & Biggar lawyers and agents recognized as top IP professionals in 2021 WIPR Leaders

April 30, 2021

Smart & Biggar is pleased to share that fourteen lawyers and agents have been recognized in the 2021 World IP Review (WIPR) Leaders, a comprehensive guide to the top intellectual property lawyers in the areas of patents and trademarks across the globe.

Congratulations to Christian Bolduc, Mark Evans, Gunars Gaikis, Steven Garland, Sanjay Goorachurn, François Guay, Sheldon Hamilton, Colin Ingram, Daphne Lainson, Philip Lapin, Mark Pidkowich, Kohji Suzuki, Ekaterina Tsimberis and Jeremy Want, who have each achieved this prominent recognition.

Each lawyer and agent selected for listing in the WIPR Leaders guide is nominated by peers who view them as exceptional in their field. All leaders profiled have been vetted for their expertise in their domain.

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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