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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

MIP IP STARS 2026 names Smart & Biggar Tier 1 firm, recognizes 33 practitioners as IP Stars

July 30, 2026

Smart & Biggar is pleased to be recognized as a Tier 1 firm in Copyright, Patent Disputes, Patent Prosecution, Trademark Disputes and Trademark Prosecution in the 2026 edition of Managing IP (MIP) IP STARS.

This edition also names 33 practitioners as IP Stars, highlighting their leadership in the field of intellectual property.

Congratulations to the following individuals on this year’s outstanding achievements:

Top 250 Women in IP

Daphne Lainson

Patent Stars

Daniel Davies
Micheline Gravelle
Yoon Kang
Daphne Lainson
Nancy Pei
Bhupinder Randhawa
David Schwartz
Elliott Simcoe
Jeremy Want
Matthew Zischka

Trademark Stars

Daniel Bereskin
Janice M. Bereskin
Mark Biernacki
Christian Bolduc
Brigitte Chan
Daniel Davies
François Guay
Philip Lapin
François Larose
Mark L. Robbins
Elliott Simcoe
Kohji Suzuki

Rising Stars

Christie Bates
Laura Easton
Jamie-Lynn Kraft
Nora Labbancz
Kwan T. Loh
Joanna Ma
Michael Sgro

Notable practitioners

Daniel Anthony
Jean-Sébastien Dupont
Christine Genge
Lynn Ing
Scott Pundsack
Alice Tseng

This high praise follows the firm’s wins at the 2026 MIP Americas Awards, where we received Canadian Firm of the Year awards for both Patent and Trademark Prosecution.

The full MIP IP STARS review of Smart & Biggar is available online.

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