Canada

Firm overview

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property law. With offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver and Calgary, and over 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents, we are also the largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas. We have a 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.

Smart & Biggar's decades of experience in intellectual property, combined with deep knowledge and expertise across a wide range of technologies and industries, allows them to provide clients with clarity on opportunities and solutions to leverage and maximize IP. No other Canadian firm can claim a stronger track record of victories in intellectual property litigation for its clients than Smart & Biggar. The firm prides itself on providing clients with the rare combination of successful trial experience, deep subject matter expertise and sophisticated and practical skills and analysis.

Smart & Biggar has the honour of working with many of Canada’s and the world’s most important innovators and brand owners. The firm is proud to have supported their 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. Smart & Biggar continuously invests in client relationships, and many of the firm's clients have entrusted them with protecting, enforcing and commercializing their IP rights. Whether 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, Smart & Biggar always ensures that clients receive the full benefit of their unrivaled IP experience and expertise.

Since 1890, Smart & Biggar has remained devoted to protecting our clients' intellectual property and technology assets, and advising clients on how to uncover and maximize available opportunities. The firm is 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.

Smart & Biggar proudly operates as part of the IPH Limited group, under its own brand and independent from other IPH member firms.

Firm overview

Regardless of its size or sector, every organisation must continually innovate to become and remain an industry leader.

BCF’s Intellectual Property team helps our clients optimise the value of their innovations, thus assuring our clients’ growth and propelling it forward. Our professionals are experts in their respective specialisations and they form a cohesive multidisciplinary team. We understand the competitive environment in which our clients operate. We partner with them to support their market growth by understanding the value of their assets, which we incorporate within a protection strategy tailored to their reality.

Firm overview

Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s largest, and longest established, intellectual property firms. Our expert teams of patent and trade mark attorneys and lawyers are wired directly into the UK’s innovation economies via our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Alongside our presence in the UK, we also have offices in nine international locations covering the EU, Canada and Asia, meaning we can tap into local expertise, globally. 

Our team provides a full-service IP offering, from the initial filing of IP, through to litigation and commercial exploitation. Having seen the benefits that our clients derive from our full-service model, a number of patent attorney firms have since sought to follow a similar approach by adding solicitors to their teams. However, our well-established and highly regarded litigation and commercial transactions practices continue to set us apart from other firms.

We are experts not only in intellectual property law, but also in the science and technology that underpins our clients’ businesses. Our ability to draw upon this specialist technical expertise, not just in the context of patent prosecution but also in the context of litigation and commercial transactions, enables us to provide clients with a level of service and reach unmatched by other firms.

Firm overview

PCK Intellectual Property is a boutique firm with a global client base.

We are recognized for excellence in originating patent drafting, and in the preparation and filing of patent and trademark applications. PCK is also known for its automated workflows, flat-rate billing, and competitive fees that offer transparency and efficiency.

Our professionals are lawyers, patent and trademark agents, scientists, and engineers with strong theoretical grounding in science, math, and software. This foundation makes us agile and deeply knowledgeable in cutting-edge technologies and modern business models.

PCK is home to seasoned general counsel, commercial advisors, and litigation counsel with experience across a wide range of industries and technologies. We support a full suite of intellectual property and related commercial services, including IP identification, protection, portfolio management, strategy, commercialization, dispute resolution, and litigation.

We work closely with clients to tailor strategies that align with their goals, protect their innovations, and drive value.

PCK is as innovative as you are.