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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 partners recognized as leading lawyers in Expert Guides: Women in Business Law, 2021 edition

September 02, 2021

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that six partners are recognized in the 2021 edition of Expert Guides: Women in Business Law. Each individual listed in the annual guide was nominated by peers, clients and industry experts across jurisdictions. Inclusion in the guide pays due respect to the accomplishments and contributions of the most talented female practitioners in business law.

Congratulations to:

Yoon Kang, recognized in Life Sciences and Patents
Daphne Lainson, recognized in Patents
Nancy Pei, recognized in Life Sciences and Patents
Alice Tseng, recognized in Life Sciences
Ekaterina Tsimberis, recognized in Trademarks
Urszula Wojtyra, recognized in Life Sciences

The Expert Guides series has been a source of guidance for in-house counsel in large corporations worldwide, since its inception in 1994. Practice area guides are designed primarily for individuals who require access to the world’s leading practitioners in specific areas of law for the purpose of instruction on an international basis.

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montréal, 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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