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Norman Cameron joins Smart & Biggar

Norman Cameron has joined forces with Canada’s leading team for intellectual property and his clients will now benefit from the unrivaled experience of Canada’s leading IP firm – Smart & Biggar.

Together, Norman Cameron and the team at Smart & Biggar offer Canadian and international companies leading IP expertise and legal counsel to help them protect, enforce, and create growth with IP.

Canada’s leader for intellectual property law

Smart & Biggar offers clients the deepest level of IP expertise with a team of more than 100 lawyers, agents and technical specialists practicing in patents, designs, copyrights and trademarks. We are also the leader in Canada for IP litigation and enforcement, with an unmatched track record of trial victories at all levels of court resulting in impressive financial returns for our clients.

Helping companies leverage the value of IP

We help companies leverage the value of IP and innovation through a complete range of IP procurement services and strategic IP counsel and advice. From drafting and filing patent applications for new technologies for manufacturers, to advising on IP portfolio strategy and infringement issues across industries.

We also advise on trademark filing and applications, provide strategic counsel on enforcement, and related guidance on marketing and advertising. For early stage and fast growth companies we also advise on IP strategy, licensing and due diligence in M&A transactions, representing both investors and founders.

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John Knox

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A persuasive and successful prosecutor, John applies his extensive patent expertise and practical insights gleaned as a hardware design engineer to protect the electrical, electronic and computer-related inventions of his innovative clients. He’s lauded by clients for his sophisticated electronics expertise and ability to connect and communicate with inventors in their own language.

Successfully drafting and prosecuting patent applications for diverse technologies

John offers clients strategic advice on the establishment and maintenance of their patent procurement programs and drafts patent and design applications for Canadian inventors and companies across a wide range of diverse technologies including communications, control, data acquisition, electrical power, pure software, medical devices and mechanical technologies. He has prosecuted patent applications for his clients in virtually every country of the world. In addition, patent professionals in other countries rely on John to prosecute patent applications for them before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Applying his extensive engineering background to advise clients

With an extensive engineering background, John is the head of the electrical and electronic engineering and computer sciences practice groups in our Vancouver office. Committed to developing future leaders, John mentors junior patent professionals at Smart & Biggar and through his involvement in the Federation of Independent Intellectual Property Professionals (FICPI).

Prior to becoming a leading patent agent, John worked as a hardware design engineer and project leader for Dynapro Systems Inc., an affiliate of Allen-Bradley Corp. His main areas of industrial experience include hardware system and communication system design using the Intel microprocessors, and analog design for data acquisition.

John Knox is the managing partner and head of the electrical and electronic engineering and computer sciences practice groups in our Vancouver office. Committed to developing future leaders, John mentors junior patent professionals at Smart & Biggar and through his involvement in the Federation of Independent Intellectual Property Professionals (FICPI). A persuasive and successful prosecutor, John applies his extensive patent expertise and practical insights gleaned as a hardware design engineer to protect the electrical, electronic and computer-related inventions of his innovative clients. He’s lauded by clients for his sophisticated electronics expertise and ability to connect and communicate with inventors in their own language. John offers clients strategic advice on the establishment and maintenance of their patent procurement programs and drafts patent and design applications for Canadian inventors and companies across a wide range of diverse technologies including communications, control, data acquisition, electrical power, pure software, medical devices and mechanical technologies. He has prosecuted patent applications for his clients in virtually every country of the world. In addition, patent professionals in other countries rely on John to prosecute patent applications for them before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.  
  • "Patents: Opposition," moderator at the FICPI Open Forum, Barcenlona, Spain, November 2014
  • "Getting Patents Quickly in North America," presented at the FICPI Open Forum, Sorrento, Italy, October 2013
  • "Recent CIPO Examination Practice Guidelines," presented at the FICPI ABC meeting, New Orleans,
    Louisiana, May 2013
  • "The 'Art' of Patentable Subject Matter in Canada," presented at the FICPI ABC meeting, Bath, England, June 2011
  • Fellow, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
  • Member of Honour, Fédération internationale des conseils en propriété intellectuelle (FICPI); Past President of the Finance Advisory Board of FICPI; Past President of FICPI Canada; Technical Program Coordinator for the 2014 FICPI ABC meeting
  • "Digital Electronics," British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC, 1983-1986
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