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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

Six Smart & Biggar IP litigators featured in Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation 2022

November 24, 2022

Smart & Biggar is thrilled to share that six of our leading IP litigators have been featured in this year’s Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation 2022.

Lexpert published its Special Edition: Litigation online and in the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine, recognizing the expertise of Canada’s leading litigators as identified through Lexpert’s annual survey of thousands of respected lawyers, corporate counsel and other legal and business professionals.

We congratulate our recognized lawyers and Principals of the firm Mark Evans, Steven Garland, François Guay, Sheldon Hamilton, Yoon Kang, and Nancy Pei for their inclusion in this special edition, reflecting their outstanding achievements as recognized by their clients, peers and colleagues.

The full list of Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation 2022 is available online.

Canada’s leading firm in high-stakes intellectual property litigation

Smart & Biggar remains the dominant force for intellectual property litigation in Canada. Our expert team is made up of highly capable trial and appellate counsel who routinely handle some of Canada’s most commercially important and technically complex intellectual property cases. On behalf of our clients, we have obtained numerous precedent-setting judgments and record-setting damages awards, in addition to victories at all levels of court, and in all areas of IP.

As a result, we have earned top rankings as a Band 1 firm for both Intellectual Property (IP) and IP Litigation in the 2023 Chambers Canada Guide. In addition to IP, the firm earned rankings in related areas of Life Sciences and Cannabis law. Smart & Biggar was also honoured as “Intellectual Property Litigation Firm of the Year” once again at the 2022 Benchmark Litigation Canada Awards. This marks the eighth consecutive year that Smart & Biggar has received this honour in recognition of the important victories we have championed for our valued clients in high-stakes litigation, across all areas of IP law.

Additionally, in the most recent release of The Legal 500 Canada, the firm was recognized as a ‘Tier 1’ firm once again for Intellectual Property, marking the ninth consecutive year Smart & Biggar has received this highest ranking. Editors of the guide affirmed Smart & Biggar’s status as “Canada’s leading IP and technology boutique, leveraging over 130 years in the market and five offices nationally”.

Smart & Biggar was also recognized as an IP leader among ‘Canada’s Best Law Firms’ for 2023 by the Globe and Mail/Statista Research, and ‘IP Boutique Firm of the Year’ by Managing Intellectual Property North America Awards 2022.

About Smart & Biggar

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading intellectual property firm, with offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property and have been serving clients for over a century. Smart & Biggar operates as part of the IPH Limited group, under its own brand and independent from other IPH member firms.

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