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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 Principal François Guay receives 2024 Benchmark Litigation Canada Hall of Fame Award

May 09, 2024

Congratulations to Principal François Guay who received the Hall of Fame Award at the Benchmark Litigation Canada Awards 2024.

Principals Jean-Sébastien Dupont and François Guay attended the awards ceremony, held at the Liberty Grand in Toronto on May 8, 2024.

This recognition follows the recent release of the 2024 Benchmark Canada Guide which named ten Principals as Litigation Stars and four as Future Stars. Principal Steven Garland was named among the Top 50 Trial lawyers in Canada in this latest edition.

Congratulations to François on this incredible achievement.

The full list of Benchmark Awards winners is available to view online.

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Rankings & Recognition

Daphne Lainson named among WIPR's Influential Women in IP

Daphne Lainson
May 02, 2024
Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that Daphne Lainson is profiled in the 2024 edition of World IP Review’s Influential Women in IP, recognizing 50 international female leaders.
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Rankings & Recognition

Benchmark Canada once again recognizes Smart & Biggar’s IP litigation team

Daniel Anthony, Mark Biernacki, Jean-Sébastien Dupont, Daniel Davies, Mark Evans, Steven Garland, François Guay, Sheldon Hamilton, Graham Hood, Yoon Kang, Evan Nuttall, Nancy Pei, Jeremy Want and Urszula Wojtyra
May 02, 2024
Smart & Biggar is proud to announce that Benchmark Litigation has recognized our firm once again as a leader for Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation in Canada.
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Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar wins Boutique Law Firm of the Year at the Canadian Law Awards

Graham Hood
May 10, 2024
Smart & Biggar has been recognized as Canada’s Boutique Law Firm of the Year at the Canadian Law Awards 2024.
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Smart & Biggar Principal François Guay receives 2024 Benchmark Litigation Canada Hall of Fame Award