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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

Lexpert/ALM 500 2024: Smart & Biggar stands out as Canada’s IP leader across all markets

January 10, 2024

Smart & Biggar is proud to share that eight Principals are recognized among Canada’s leading lawyers for intellectual property (IP) in the 2024 edition of The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (the Lexpert/ALM 500).

The firm stands out as Canada’s leader for IP with more featured lawyers than any other firm, upholding our distinguished reputation and unmatched expertise in IP.

Congratulations to Mark Biernacki, Christian Bolduc, Mark Evans, Philip Lapin, Nancy Pei and Matthew Zischka, named leading lawyers for IP, and Steven Garland and François Guay, named leading lawyers for both IP and IP Litigation.

Additionally, Smart & Biggar is ranked a leading firm in the “Who’s Who” charts for IP and is the only IP firm to be highlighted across all markets covered: Toronto (AAA), Ottawa (AA), Montréal (AA) and Vancouver (AA).

The Lexpert/ALM 500 guide is considered the leading resource for US-based lawyers seeking Canadian counsel. It profiles the 500 ‘Most Frequently Recommended’ lawyers across Canada with a cross-border multijurisdictional practice. Lawyers are nominated through an annual peer survey, reflecting winners’ highly regarded industry reputation.

The full list of the 2024 edition of Lexpert/ALM 500 is available to view online.

We congratulate our lawyers for this honourable and well-deserved recognition.

About Smart & Biggar

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading intellectual property firm, with offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property and have been serving clients for over a century. Smart & Biggar operates as part of the IPH Limited group, under its own brand and independent from other IPH member firms.

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