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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 as leading lawyers by Who's Who Legal: Life Sciences Global Guide 2021

February 12, 2021

Smart & Biggar is pleased to share that Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences 2021 Global Guide has honoured five lawyers as leaders in life sciences law. Partners Steven Garland, Sheldon Hamilton and Of Counsel Gunars Gaikis are named under Patent Litigation; partner Alice Tseng is recognized for Regulatory Law; and partner Nancy Pei is honoured with recognition under both Patent Litigation and Regulatory Law.

The guide goes on to describe Steven Garland as respected for his “considerable experience leading on patent disputes” pertaining to the biochemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors;

Sheldon Hamilton, leader of the Smart & Biggar’s litigation practice, is mentioned as winning considerable endorsements from sources, having impressed with his “innovative representation of clients in the life sciences sector”;

Nancy Pei made an impression on researchers with her “first-class life sciences practice”, which focuses on patent litigation in the pharmaceutical and biologics sectors;

Alice Tseng, who is listed as a leader in regulatory law, is praised by international colleagues for her “outstanding knowledge of regulatory frameworks governing the pharmaceutical sector”; and

Of Counsel Gunars Gaikis, a lawyer with over 30 years of experience in contentious IP proceedings in the pharmaceutical sector as well as regulatory issues, is noted as “a top-drawer patent litigator”

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.

The full guide and rankings are available to view 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 property and technology law and have been serving clients for over a century.

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