2025 - Canadian IP Year in Review

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Our 2025 year-in-review resource features essential updates on Canadian litigation, trademarks, patents, life sciences IP and regulatory law. Read our articles, webinars and top 10 articles of 2025.

Year in Review Webinars

[Webinar] Canadian patent law 2025: a year in review

SpeakersAndrea Berenbaum, Reshika Dhir, Michael Sgro and Iris Ngo
Jan, 2026 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Our presenters Reshika Dhir, Andrea Berenbaum and Michael Sgro will provide an annual summary of key developments in Canadian patent law. It offers a valuable opportunity for legal professionals and o...
[Webinar] Canadian trademark law 2025: a year in review

SpeakersToba Cooper, Karl Racine, Jennie Yum and Kwan T. Loh
Jan, 2026 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Our presenters Toba Cooper, Karl Racine, Jennie Yum and Kwan T. Loh will deliver a roundup of Canadian trademark law, highlighting some of the most important new cases and practice directions from 202...
[Webinar] Canadian IP litigation 2025: a year in review

SpeakersMatthew Burt and Daniel Davies
Jan, 2026 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Our presenters Matthew Burt and Daniel Davies will provide an annual summary of key developments in Canadian IP litigation.

Top 10 Most-Read IP Insights of 2024

Canadian Intellectual Property Office “Next Generation Patents” update and status as of November 24, 2025
Trends in patent filing for artificial intelligence-assisted medical technologies
When patents expire but royalty payments don’t: contrasting U.S. and Canadian approaches to patent licensing
Avoiding the hindsight trap in the context of a patent obviousness analysis
AI training copies blessed as “fair use” by U.S. Court – Can a similar path be forged in Canada?
Not all that bubbles is Champagne – considerations for the protection of geographical indications in Canada
Canadian-inspired branding: what’s it all mean, eh?
Protecting confidential information in the age of AI
Costs awards in Canadian IP proceedings – update and future directions
Quebec’s French language requirements for commerce and business: reform of the Charter of the French language

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Top 10 Most-Read Rx IP Updates of 2024

Update on biosimilars in Canada – June 2025
Health Canada must redetermine exemption requests for psilocybin (magic mushroom)-assisted psychotherapy training
Health Canada publishes guidance on submitting risk management plans
Medical devices updates: new Health Canada guidance for determining medical device application type and Medical Devices Directorate performance reports released
Supreme Court of Canada reserves decision on appeal relating to the patentability of methods of medical treatment
SCC to revisit “method of medical treatment” patent claims
Health Canada aims to reduce red tape by increasing international collaboration, alignment and reliance
Health Canada releases its Statistical Report 2024/2025 for PMNOC Regulations, data protection and CSPs
Alexion awarded injunction against Amgen in SOLIRIS patent action; Court considers anticipation by incorporation by reference
Canadian Patent Office resumes granting of patents and is temporarily publishing list of pre-grant patents

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