Smart & Biggar celebrates six Rising Stars and seven Notable Practitioners in the 2024 MIP IP Stars
Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that six practitioners have been honoured as Rising Stars in the 2024 Managing IP (MIP) IP Stars. Additionally, seven practitioners were given honourable mention as Notable Practitioners.
Congratulations on their inclusion as Rising Stars, which recognizes the best up-and-coming IP practitioners from around the world. This achievement reflects their individual contributions to the success of our clients and the firm acknowledges their expertise and quality of service they provide in Canada and worldwide in IP.
- Christie Bates
- Toba Cooper
- Laura Easton
- Jamie-Lynn Kraft
- Kwan T. Loh
- Joanna Ma
Seven practitioners were given honourable mention as Notable Practitioners for their expertise and status as future IP Stars to watch.
- Daniel Anthony
- Christine Genge
- Lynn Ing
- Guillaume Lavoie Ste-Marie
- Evan Nuttall
- Scott Pundsack
- Alice Tseng
This high praise follows the firm’s success at the MIP North America Awards 2024 where we received Canadian Firm of the Year awards for Patent Prosecution and Trademark Disputes in addition to being named IP Boutique Firm of the Year - Canada. Smart & Biggar was also recognized as Tier 1 firm, with 16 principals named IP Stars.