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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.

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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 tops the shortlist in Canada with nine LMG ‘Women in Business Law’ awards in 2023

April 14, 2023

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted in nine categories for this year’s LMG Women in Business Law Awards – Americas 2023.

The Women in Business Law Awards celebrates the achievements of women lawyers and the diversity agenda in legal work from firms across the globe. Smart & Biggar is once again shortlisted for more categories than any other nominated Canadian firm on both a firm and individual level.

Recognizing women at the forefront of legal work in business law in North America 2023, Smart & Biggar’s Individual nominations include: Toronto based Principals Yoon Kang, shortlisted for Litigator of the Year, and Nancy Pei, shortlisted for Patent Lawyer of the Year and Life Sciences Lawyer of the Year, based on peer review from leading women practitioners.

Smart & Biggar was also nominated for five firm awards in North America, including “Best Firm” for Career Development, Diverse Women Lawyers, Gender Diversity, Work-Life Balance, Women in Business Law and nominated in the Jurisdiction category for Canada. All short-listed law firms were selected for their progressive diversity and inclusion initiatives as well as their programs to support and encourage women and diversity within the industry.

All shortlisted firms and individuals are available to view online. Winners will be announced on June 8, 2023, at an in-person gala ceremony in New York.

About Smart & Biggar

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading intellectual property firm, with offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property 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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Smart & Biggar tops the shortlist in Canada with nine LMG ‘Women in Business Law’ awards in 2023