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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 confirms Life Sciences expertise and experience with 10 lawyers and agents named in 2019 Expert Guides: Life Sciences

September 10, 2019

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce ten Lawyers and Agents, more than any other firm in Canada, have been included in LMG’s 2019 Expert Guides: Life Sciences.

A new addition to the list: Urszula Wojtyra, was recognized in 2018 as a Rising Star and has since been elevated to be included among the world’s leading Life Sciences law practitioners.

Congratulations to: Gunars Gaikis, Sheldon Hamilton, Yoon Kang, Daphne Lainson, Thuy Nguyen, Nancy Pei, Mark Pidkowich, David Schwartz, Alice Tseng and Urszula Wojtyra.

Smart & Biggar also topped the list with 14 lawyers and agents recognized in Expert Guides: Patents, and six lawyers and agents named in Expert Guides: Rising Stars, both released earlier this year.

Since 1994, the Expert Guides have identified leading legal practitioners considered by clients and peers to be the best in their field. Expert Guides: Patents is based on the results of over 4,000 questionnaires completed by senior practitioners and in-house counsel in over 90 jurisdictions.

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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