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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 earns ‘Canadian Impact Case of the Year’ for Bell Media et al. v John Doe dba GoldTV in MIP Americas Awards

April 06, 2020

Smart & Biggar is proud to be awarded ‘Canadian Impact Case of the Year’ for our work on Bell Media et al. v John Doe 1 dba GoldTV.biz at the MIP 2020 Americas Awards. The case involved an unprecedented Order from the Federal Court (Canada) – the first site-blocking Order to be issued by a Canadian Court – compelling Canada’s primary internet service providers to block subscribers from accessing internet services that distributed infringing film and television content. We share this honour and recognition with our clients Bell Media, Rogers Media and Groupe TVA (the plaintiffs) and our litigation team led by François Guay, Guillaume Lavoie Ste-Marie and Olivier Jean-Lévesque, from our Montreal office.

In speaking with The Globe and Mail about the case, senior associate Guillaume Lavoie Ste-Marie explained that “[c]ontent theft remains a critical threat to Canada’s creative sector, impacting rights holders and creators across the industry and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and thousands of lost jobs,” making the Order an important victory for Canadian copyright owners.

Smart & Biggar has long been recognized by Managing IP as an industry leader. The MIP America Awards are presented to firms, individuals and companies behind the most innovative and challenging IP work of the past year. In addition to ‘Canadian Impact Case of the Year’, Smart & Biggar was also presented with ‘Boutique Firm of the Year’ and ‘Canadian Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year’. Mark Evans, Managing Partner of the firm’s Toronto office, was also selected as ‘Outstanding Canadian Trademark Practitioner of the Year’.

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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