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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

Smart & Biggar sponsors GLOBE Capital and discusses IP Strategies to attract capital in cleantech

April 09, 2021

Smart & Biggar is proud to sponsor the GLOBE Capital virtual conference, taking place on April 13 to 15, 2021. GLOBE Capital brings together North American and global leaders, investors, innovators and policymakers with an interest in scaling the clean economy.

As a sponsor, Smart & Biggar will host the Workshop in Growth panel “IP Strategies to Attract Capital in Cleantech: Generating Value and Return on Innovation”, on April 13. Cleantech investments are a priority for companies across industries and are at the forefront of innovation and economic development for Canada’s Net Zero future. It is vital for companies developing cleantech technologies to have a pro-active IP strategy that aligns with business goals to protect and leverage valuable intangible IP assets. For cleantech companies, securing effective IP protection at an early stage is critical to create tangible value, drive commercial success, and attract investors and partners.

Firm partner Lei Liu will moderate the panel made up of C-suite panelists from a range of cleantech companies and investment funds, who will share their top IP tips and lessons on how to attract investment to scale for growth, and generate value and return on innovation, with a clear IP strategy.

Smart & Biggar partner Mark Pidkowich and associate Walter Chan will also attend the conference.

GLOBE Capital virtual conference registration is available here.

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 and technology law and have been serving clients for over a century.

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