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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 tops the list for IP with 7 lawyers named as Rising Stars by LMG Expert Guides

August 13, 2018

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce we have topped the list with the most IP professionals named from Canada in Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides - Rising Stars, 2018 edition. Seven of the firm’s partners and associates have been recognized as the world’s brightest and most skillful practitioners. These up-and-coming lawyers and agents represent Smart & Biggar’s full range of expertise and the depth of our experience across all practice areas.

Congratulations to:

Daniel Anthony (Trademarks)
Paul den Boef (Patents)
Jonas Gifford (Patents)
Andrew Mandlsohn (Life Sciences)
Mark Pidkowich (Patents)
Timothy Stevenson (Trademarks)
Urszula Wojtyra (Life Sciences)

Throughout this summer we will be profiling each of our ‘Rising Stars’ on social media and our website to share insights on what they bring to clients in their practices and what drives them to succeed.

This is the 4th edition of LMG’s Rising Stars, dedicated to identifying the brightest talent across 28 practice areas of law.

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Smart & Biggar is Canada's largest firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property and technology law and have been serving clients for over a century. For more information, please visit smart-biggar.ca.

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