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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

Smart & Biggar boasts seven “Life Sciences Stars” in the 2020 edition of LMG Life Sciences

October 23, 2020

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that seven partners have been named “Life Sciences Stars” across Intellectual Property and Regulatory practice areas in the 2020 edition of Legal Media Group (LMG) Life Sciences. Additionally, the firm has been recognized as a “Highly Recommended” firm for Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution & Strategy and Regulatory, reinforcing the unmatched level of expertise and quality of service we provide across the patent lifecycle to life sciences innovators.

Congratulations to Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton, Yoon Kang, Daphne Lainson, Nancy Pei and David Schwartz for their recognition in Intellectual Property and Alice Tseng for her distinction in Regulatory.

Smart & Biggar’s LMG Life Sciences 2020 rankings affirm the firm’s status as an industry-leader with one of the most experienced and talented teams in Canada. LMG describes Smart & Biggar Chair, Daphne Lainson, as having “a strong reputation in the market as a life sciences patent strategist and counselor.” In recognition of her significant work in the area, Daphne was recently named 2020 Patent Strategy Practitioner of the Year in Canada at the LMG Life Sciences Awards on September 23, 2020.

Sheldon Hamilton—who was named the 2020 Patent Litigator of the Year in Canada—with “recognized practitioner” Nancy Pei, impressed LMG with their involvement in one of the Patent Impact Cases of the Year, AstraZeneca Canada v Sandoz Canada, which clarified procedure related to the PM(NOC) regulations. Sheldon and Nancy, along with partner Yoon Kang, each “bolster the firm’s strength in [patent litigation].”

In regulatory, Alice Tseng “stands as one of the market’s most respected practitioners.” Alice was also shortlisted for the Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year, an award she won in 2019.

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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