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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

5 Smart & Biggar practitioners recognized for life sciences by the Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences 2020

March 18, 2020

Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that five practitioners have been listed as leading lawyers in life sciences by the Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences 2020 National Guide. Recognized in the guide are partners Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton, Nancy Pei and Alice Tseng, and Of Counsel Gunars Gaikis.

Steven Garland, who is lauded as a “leading IP litigator” by the guide, receives wide-ranging praise for his vast experience representing international brands across the life sciences sector.

Gunars Gaikis brings over 25 years of litigation experience to his cases. Sources commend him as “a strong litigator” in the life sciences space who "just keeps winning.”

Alice Tseng secures numerous recommendations from peers who cite her “combined expertise as a lawyer, patent agent and pharmacist to advise on complex regulatory and marketing matters.”

Nancy Pei and Sheldon Hamilton, two leaders in life sciences litigation from our Toronto office, round out the firm’s listing.

Who’s Who Legal identifies the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business law. In total, over 24,000 of the world’s leading private practice lawyers and 2,500 consulting experts from over 150 national jurisdictions are featured.

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property 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.

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