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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.

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Compulsory licensing in Canada—revisited

Authored byDaphne Lainson and Nancy Pei

April 21, 2020

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Daphne Lainson
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Principal
- Smart & Biggar LP
- T:613.232.2572
- dclainson@smartbiggar.ca
- Ottawa
Daphne Lainson
Principal
Daphne Lainson is a principal in Smart & Biggar's Ottawa office and Chair of the Firm. For over two decades she has specialized in securing patent protection for chemical, pharmaceutical and ...
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Nancy Pei
Counsel
- Smart & Biggar LLP
- T:416.595.2761
- nppei@smartbiggar.ca
- Toronto
Nancy Pei
Counsel
Nancy Pei is a principal in Smart & Biggar's Toronto office. With hands-on experience as a pharmacist and over 25 years of patent litigation expertise, Nancy has established a successful IP practi...
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Related Publications & Articles

Canada's use of compulsory licensing for pharmaceuticals during the virus pandemic

Authored byDaphne Lainson and Nancy Pei
June 02, 2020
There is a long shadow cast by compulsory licensing in Canada; so, when the government passed legislation on 25 March 2020 to introduce a new form of compulsory licensing, this caused a stir within th...
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Regulators toughening up on health-related advertising as misleading COVID claims abound

Authored byAlice Tseng
June 10, 2020
Smart & Biggar partner and regulatory law expert Alice Tseng spoke with Canadian Lawyer about Canada’s crackdown on advertising claims around COVID-19 related products.
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Canada’s patent office speeding examination of COVID-19 med-tech applications, cutting company costs

Authored byDavid Schwartz
August 03, 2020
David Schwartz spoke to Bioworld about the new pilot program designed to reduce the time it takes to approve patent applications for inventions supporting health-related response to COVID-19.
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