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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 shortlisted in nine categories including ‘Americas Firm of the Year’ in the Managing IP Americas Awards

February 28, 2023

Smart & Biggar is proud to share that the firm has been included on the shortlist once again for the Managing IP America Awards, reflecting our market leadership in Canada for IP services.

This year, Smart & Biggar is featured in nine categories by Managing IP earning more nominations than any other IP firm in Canada. We are especially honoured this year to be the only Canadian firm nominated for the ‘Americas Firm of the Year’ award.

Two of the firm’s Principals were also nominated for individual-level awards:

Mark Biernacki for Canadian Practitioner of the Year (Trademark)
François Guay for Canadian Practitioner of the Year (Copyright)

In addition to Americas Firm of the Year, our other ‘Firm of the Year’ nominations include:

Canadian Copyright
Canadian Patent Disputes
Canadian Patent Prosecution
Canadian Trademark Disputes
Canadian Trademark Prosecution
Canadian IP Boutique

These award nominations from Managing IP acknowledge the strength and leadership of our stellar team of lawyers, patent and trademark agents at Smart & Biggar, and we are proud to celebrate this recognition as IP leaders in Canada.

Managing IP will reveal all the Americas Awards winners, including Impact Case winners, during a gala dinner at the JW Marriott Essex House, New York City, on April 27.

The full shortlist of Managing IP Americas Award nominees is available online now.

About Smart & Biggar

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property and technology law and have been serving clients for over a century. Smart & Biggar operates as part of the IPH Limited group, under its own brand and independent from other IPH member firms.

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