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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 100 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 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents in five offices, we are also Canada’s largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas.

Events

Partners, Daphne Lainson and Nancy Pei, attend the ChIPs Global Summit in Washington, D.C.

September 25, 2019

Smart & Biggar partners, Daphne Lainson and Nancy Pei, will be in Washington from September 25-27, 2019 to participate in the 8th annual ChIPs Global Summit for women in tech, law and policy. The theme of this year’s summit is “Women Changing the Future”.

Nancy and Daphne will connect with industry peers and attend sessions hosted by legal trailblazers, tech disruptors, female innovators and CEOs. Panels will showcase women shaping the future of autonomous vehicles, top academics who are disrupting lawyering, biotech and pharma experts who are changing the future of medicine and inspiring women who are driving social change for underrepresented minorities.

Past summit headline speakers have included former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates, NPR’s Nina Totenberg, Fortune’s Pattie Sellers, elected officials and members of the judiciary, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Each year ChIPs draws more than 550 senior-level women in technology, policy, private practice, corporations, government, academia and beyond. ChIPs’ mission is to advance and connect women in technology, law and policy, and seeks to accelerate innovation through diversity of thought, participation and engagement.

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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