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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 dominates Managing Intellectual Property Awards, and wins "Canadian IP Boutique of the Year"

March 16, 2018

Smart & Biggar is proud to have been honoured with a record-setting five (5) prestigious awards by Managing Intellectual Property (MIP). The firm has long been recognized by MIP as a leader in IP, and this year was the only Canadian firm to be nominated across all categories.

The firm was chosen as Canadian IP Boutique Firm of the Year and as the Canadian Patent Contentious Firm of the Year, and partner Gunars Gaikis was recognized as Canada's Outstanding IP Practitioner of the Year.

In addition, the firm also received recognition for two "Milestone Cases of the Year" for AstraZeneca Canada v Apotex (NEXIUM) and Dow Chemical Company v Nova Chemical.

We would like to thank all of our clients and associates for their support, and for entrusting Smart & Biggar as their IP firm of choice in Canada.

Steven Garland, Managing Partner of Smart & Biggar said:

“We are delighted to be honoured once again by Managing Intellectual Property. These awards reflect the dedication and focus of all of our lawyers and agents in providing our clients with innovative Canadian IP solutions and services that are second to none. From “bet the company” IP litigation, to cost-effectively acting as a trusted advisor in Canada to manage valuable IP portfolios on behalf of the world’s most successful businesses and foreign associate law firms"

These awards were presented at MIP's North America Awards ceremony, held on March 15th, 2018 at Essex House in New York City. The awards recognize excellence in the global IP industry and was attended by IP practitioners from across Canada and the United States.

Smart & Biggar has also been honoured recently by a number of other prestigious awards as Canada’s leader in IP law, including:

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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.

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