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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 receives praise as ‘best-in-class for high stakes IP litigation and counseling’ in 2020 edition of The Legal 500 Canada

November 14, 2019

Smart & Biggar is pleased to share its distinction as a ‘Tier 1’ firm for Intellectual Property in the 2020 edition of The Legal 500 Canada. This marks six consecutive years that the firm has received top rankings in The Legal 500 guide.

Smart & Biggar is one of only two firms to receive the top rankings and boasts five partners — Mark Evans, Gunars Gaikis, Steven Garland, François Guay and Mark Biernacki — recognized as leading lawyers in IP, more than any other firm in Canada. In addition, the firm also ranked in Cannabis law with two partners, Alice Tseng and Theodore Sum, recommended.

Colleagues and peers cite Smart & Biggar as ‘[t]he most knowledgeable and progressive thinking IP firm in the country, with tremendous bench strength and depth. Lawyers have great availability, are top in their field and demonstrate very good relationship management skills.’

Testimonials from the guide’s research describe Smart & Biggar as having “remarkable depth and skill in all aspects of trial and appellate advocacy. Lawyers keep [their clients] well-informed, and deliver top value for litigation dollars. The firm is, quite simply, best-in-class for high stakes IP litigation and counseling in Canada.” Clients also share their insights on the firm, asserting that ‘[t]he group [at Smart & Biggar] is always keen to hear about developments in our business and to discuss how they can support us.’

See the full results of The Legal 500 Canada Intellectual Property rankings here.

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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