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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

Smart & Biggar makes a strong showing with 17 practitioners listed in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2019

February 03, 2020

Who’s Who Legal: Canada recently published their 2019 guide, naming 17 Smart & Biggar lawyers and agents among Canada’s leading experts in Patents, Patent Agency, Trademarks, and Life Sciences.

Of the list of our highly successful practitioners, four were awarded with the additional recognition of being “Most Highly Regarded”. Gunars Giakis, received this distinction as only one of four Canadian Life Sciences Practitioners. David Schwartz and Matthew Zischka were two of four Canadians to be recognized as “Most Highly Regarded” for patents, and Mark Evens was one of four Canadians to achieve this ranking for Trademarks.

Recognized for Life Sciences: Alice Tseng, Gunars Gaikis, Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton and Nancy Pei.

Recognized for Patents: Gunars Gaikis, François Guay, Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton, Nancy Pei, Stephan Georgiev, John Knox, Daphne Lainson, David Schwartz, Oliver Stone, Matthew Zischka and Yoon Kang.

Recognized for Trademarks: François Guay, Christian Bolduc, Mark Evans, Philip Lapin and Keltie Sim Luft.

Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2019’s Full Rankings can be found here.

Smart & Biggar is recognised as Canada’s largest and leading firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. As leaders in intellectual property and technology law Smart & Biggar has been serving clients for over a century.

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