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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 comes in on top for IP with 6 lawyers named as Rising Stars by LMG Expert Guides

July 24, 2019

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce we have topped the Expert Guides list with the most “Rising Stars” for IP in Canada named by Legal Media Group in the 2019 edition of Expert Guides: Rising Stars. Six of the firm’s partners and associates, four of which are new to the list in 2019, have been recognized as the world’s brightest and most skillful up-and-coming practitioners in IP. Our rising stars represent Smart & Biggar’s depth of experience in the patents and trademarks industry.

Congratulations to:

Daniel Davies - Rising Stars (Patents)
Paul den Boef - Rising Stars (Patents)
Jeff Leuschner - Rising Stars (Patents)
Mark Starzomski - Rising Stars (Patents)
Daniel Anthony - Rising Stars (Trademarks)
Graham Hood - Rising Stars (Trademarks)

This is the 5th edition of LMG’s Rising Stars, dedicated to identifying the brightest talent across 28 practice areas of law.

See Smart & Biggar’s full list of experts, here.

Smart & Biggar is Canada's largest firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology 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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Smart & Biggar comes in on top for IP with 6 lawyers named as Rising Stars by LMG Expert Guides