Smart & Biggar LLP

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 the largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas.

We have a storied history and tradition of providing the highest quality of IP advisory services and have filed more patent and trademark applications than any firm in Canada. Our decades of experience in intellectual property, combined with our deep knowledge and expertise across a wide range of technologies and industries, allows us to provide clients with clarity on opportunities and solutions to leverage and maximize IP.

No other firm can claim a stronger track record of victories in intellectual property litigation for its clients than Smart & Biggar. We pride ourselves on providing clients with the rare combination of successful trial experience, deep subject matter expertise and sophisticated and practical skills and analysis.

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Trusted by the world's leading companies and innovators

At Smart & Biggar, we have the honour of working with many of Canada's and the world's most important innovators and brand owners. We continuously invest in our client relationships, and many of our clients have entrusted us with protecting, enforcing and commercializing their IP rights for over a half-century.

We are proud to have supported our clients on the road to market leadership - from start-up companies in emerging growth sectors to multinational corporations, as well as innovators at universities and other research institutions ? advising them on their most critical and complex IP matters.

Whether we are advising an innovative manufacturer on patent strategy or infringement issues, providing counsel on brand protection and enforcement, or handling the IP aspects of a corporate transaction, we always ensure that our clients receive the full benefit of our unrivaled IP experience and expertise.
We not only find value, we create it

Since 1888, we have helped our clients find value in their intellectual property rights. We remain devoted to protecting our clients' intellectual property and technology assets, and advising clients on how to uncover and maximize available opportunities.

New ideas are conceived daily. At Smart & Biggar, we are committed to providing expert counsel and guidance to safeguard our clients' competitive position and help them build and enforce strategic intellectual property and technology rights that will create more value for their business.

Our office in Ottawa is located in close proximity to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and at the heart of one of Canada's highest growth markets for technology and innovation. As our oldest and largest office, our local team in Ottawa is well established and able to provide the full range of intellectual property services and litigation expertise. We serve a wide range of clients, from high-growth domestic companies to large multinational corporations, providing them access to our full breadth and depth of expertise across all technical areas and industries. As the leaders for IP in Canada, we are driven by our passion to protect and exploit our clients' most important intellectual property assets and help them succeed with IP.

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Corporate	35
Intellectual Property - General	72
IP - Patent	40
IP - Patent General	5