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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 stands out with five lawyers recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences 2022

February 03, 2022

Smart & Biggar is proud to announce that five lawyers have been named in the recent Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences 2022 Global Guide as leaders in life sciences law. Partners Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton and Of Counsel Gunars Gaikis are named under Patent Litigation; partner Alice Tseng is recognized for Regulatory Law; and partner Nancy Pei is honoured with recognition under both Patent Litigation and Regulatory Law.

This year’s guide describes Gunars Gaikis as a “pillar of the Canadian IP market report sources, with over 25 years of experience with patent litigation matters in the pharmaceutical sector;”

Steven Garland wins praise from peers for his “extensive experience spanning over 25 years representing some of the world’s largest multinationals in their patent disputes;”

Sheldon Hamilton, leader of Smart & Biggar’s litigation practice, is identified as a “distinguished patent litigator with 20 years of litigation experience pertaining to pharmaceutical patent;"

Alice Tseng, listed as a “Global Elite Thought Leader,” is hailed for her extensive experience of “over two decades…advising large-scale clients in heavily regulated industries on a wide range of compliance matters;” and

Nancy Pei is acknowledged by market commentators as an “experienced and knowledgeable IP lawyer who provides clients with over 20 years of experience before Canada’s highest courts in patent litigation proceedings.”

Who’s Who Legal identifies the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business law. In total, over 28,000 of the world’s leading private practice lawyers and 2,500 consulting experts from over 160 international jurisdictions are featured.

The full Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences 2022 guide and rankings are available to view online.

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.

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