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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.

Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar shortlisted for five LMG Life Sciences Awards in 2020

August 24, 2020

Smart & Biggar is proud to share that we have been shortlisted for five LMG Life Sciences Awards, each a recognition of the firm’s leadership in the life sciences law space. LMG Life Sciences Awards are presented to firms, individuals and companies behind the most innovative and challenging Life Sciences work of the past year.

On a firm level, Smart & Biggar is shortlisted for both 'Canadian Patent Litigation Firm of the Year' and 'Canadian Patent Strategy Firm of the Year'.

Individual nominations include Toronto partner Sheldon Hamilton, shortlisted for 'Canadian Patent Litigator of the Year'; Toronto partner Alice Tseng, shortlisted for 'Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year'; and Ottawa partner and firm chair, Daphne Lainson, short listed for 'Canadian Patent Strategy Practitioner of the Year'.

All award winners will be announced online on September 23, 2020.

Related People

Sheldon Hamilton
Partner
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:416.595.2753
- jshamilton@smartbiggar.ca
- Toronto
Daphne Lainson
Partner, Chair of the Firm
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent and Trademark Agent
- T:613.232.2572
- dclainson@smartbiggar.ca
- Ottawa
Alice Tseng
Partner
- Smart & Biggar LLP
Barrister and Solicitor
- Patent Agent
- T:647.798.0025
- atseng@smartbiggar.ca
- Toronto

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