People

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 honoured as one of only two Canadian firms selected as a ‘Band One’ firm in Canadian intellectual property law in the 2015 Edition of Chambers Global — The World's Leading Lawyers for Business

March 12, 2015

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh has once again been honoured by the highly regarded legal directory, Chambers Global 2015, by receiving a ranking in 'Band One' in the category of Intellectual Property — the highest ranking given to firms by the directory. Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh is proud to be one of only two Canadian firms given this honourary ranking and for being lauded as “strong across all aspects of IP" and for having “lawyers at the firm [who] are extremely smart and hard-working."

In addition to the firm's ranking in the directory, we are pleased to have five leading lawyers listed in the areas of Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property: Litigation.

Listed in Intellectual Property:
John Bochnovic
Mark Evans

Listed in Intellectual Property: Litigation:
Gunars Gaikis
Steven Garland
François Guay

Chambers and Partners has been publishing legal directories for over 20 years. The research they conduct is fully independent and is the result of thousands of interviews with lawyers and their clients in legal markets in over 190 countries.

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Smart & Biggar honoured as one of only two Canadian firms selected as a ‘Band One’ firm in Canadian intellectual property law in the 2015 Edition of Chambers Global — The World's Leading Lawyers for Business