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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 Selected in Canadian Lawyer's Top 10 Intellectual Property Boutiques for 2014

January 10, 2014

Smart & Biggar is proud to announce that Canadian Lawyer magazine has recognized the firm as one of the top 10 IP boutiques in , identifying that the firm was rated most highly by other corporate lawyers as well as those in private practice.

As ’s largest IP boutique, Smart & Biggar has a unique position in the Canadian marketplace and is consistently recognized both in and globally as a leading IP firm. The firm is proud of Canadian Lawyer’s recent recognition, establishing Smart & Biggar as one of the most notable Canadian IP boutiques and the only firm named with offices across the country.

Canadian Lawyer's editorial board first established a list of the most notable firms, and then asked corporate lawyers and lawyers working in large firms their opinion about the most respected boutique firms, to which they refer IP cases.

To view the article and the full list, click here.

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Smart & Biggar Selected in Canadian Lawyer's Top 10 Intellectual Property Boutiques for 2014