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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

Nine Smart & Biggar lawyers featured as industry leaders in Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences

June 17, 2021

Smart & Biggar is pleased to share that nine of our life sciences practitioners are included among the leading lawyers listed in the Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences 2021.

Smart & Biggar’s life sciences team is a dominant force in pharmaceutical patent procurement, regulatory interface, and enforcement and litigation. Our Lexpert-ranked lawyers handle some of Canada’s most commercially important and technically complex pharmaceutical and life sciences cases.

Congratulations to Sheldon Hamilton, Yoon Kang, Daphne Lainson, Nancy Pei, Mark Pidkowich, David Schwartz, Alice Tseng, Urszula Wojtyra, and senior associate Abigail Smith, who is named by Lexpert as a “Lawyer to Watch”.

The inaugural publication of Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences focuses on health services and the Lexpert-ranked lawyers who serve in the industry. The full list of lawyers can be found in the Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences 2021.

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 Canadian Patent Strategy Firm of the Year at the LMG Life Sciences Awards Americas 2026
September 11, 2026
Smart & Biggar is proud to be named Patent Strategy Firm of the Year – Canada at the LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards 2026. This marks the eighth time the firm has received this recognition, high...
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Smart & Biggar maintains Band 1 rankings in Intellectual Property and IP Litigation in Chambers Canada 2027

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Smart & Biggar is proud to announce its continued position as a top-ranked law firm in the 2027 edition of the Chambers Canada Legal Guide, maintaining Band 1 rankings in both Intellectual Propert...
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