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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 100 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 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents in five offices, we are also Canada’s largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas.

Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar honored for consumer survey research-based evidence in Captain Morgan Rum case

July 02, 2018

Smart & Biggar recently received an Award of Excellence at the annual Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA) Award Dinner.

The award for “Best Multi-Stakeholder Research Initiative” was presented jointly to Smart & Biggar and CorbinPartners Inc. for consumer survey research-based evidence provided to the Federal Court in Diageo Canada Inc v Heaven Hill Distilleries Inc, 2017 FC 571. In that case, Diageo Canada, one of the world’s largest producers of spirits, was successfully represented by the Smart & Biggar team of François Guay, Mark Evans, Ekaterina Tsimberis and Renaud Garon Gendron against Heaven Hill Distilleries.

The award recognizes outstanding collaboration among multiple stakeholders in a manner that enhances the value of research outcomes. Smart & Biggar, led by Ekaterina Tsimberis, François Guay and Mark Evans used consumer survey research-based evidence to help establish proof of confusion between the defendant’s trade dress and the trade dress associated with Diageo’s well-known CAPTAIN MORGAN brand as well as depreciation of the value of the goodwill of Diageo’s registered trademarks.

The award from the MRIA is an acknowledgment of the potential effectiveness of consumer survey research when used in the courts, and re-enforces the value of survey evidence to the legal profession.

The MRIA 2018 ‘Excellence in Research’ Awards celebrate excellence in marketing research, across 10 distinct categories. All nominations are peer submitted and describe outstanding research conducted between January 1 and December 31, 2017.

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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. For more information, please visit smart-biggar.ca.

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