Smart & Biggar tops the rankings and is recognized by Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars as the “best IP firm in Canada”

Smart & Biggar was pleased to announce today that 18 of the firm’s professionals were identified as “IP Stars” by Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars, 2017 edition. The publication also honoured Smart & Biggar as the “best IP firm in Canada”.

Our recognized professionals include:

Patent Stars

• Allan Brett      
• Gunars Gaikis 
• Steven Garland          
• Stephan Georgiev     
• Sheldon Hamilton     
• Yoon Kang       
• Daphne Lainson         
• Nancy Pei        - also listed as one of the Top 250 women in IP
• Christopher Robinson 
• David Schwartz            
• Elliott Simcoe 
• Jeremy Want 
• Matthew Zischka 

Trademark Stars

• Mark Evans    
• Steven Garland          
• Sanjay Goorachurn   
• François Guay
• Philip Lapin   
• Keltie Sim Luft          
• Elliott Simcoe

Earlier this year, Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars ranked Smart & Biggar as a Tier One firm in the areas of Patent Contentious, Patent Prosecution, Trademark Prosecution and Trademark Contentious in the Canadian national category. At the 2017 MIP North America Awards, the firm was named Canadian Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year for the fourth consecutive year, and was also awarded one of the highest honours of the night – Milestone Case of the Year for North America. 

To learn more about our other recent accolades, click here.

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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.