Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh

Key Litigation Contacts

Ottawa - Steven Garland sbgarland@smart-biggar.ca

Toronto - Mark Evans mkevans@smart-biggar.ca & Gunars Gaikis ggaikis@smart-biggar.ca

Montreal - François Guay fguay@smart-biggar.ca

Vancouver & Calgary - Alistair Simpson agsimpson@smart-biggar.ca

Smart & Biggar is Canada’s largest firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law. We work directly with global and domestic organizations, and seamlessly as one team with associate firms, to help  our clients secure, protect  and maximize the value  of their inventions and intellectual property investments in Canada.

From five offices across Canada, we offer the full complement of intellectual property services including strategic IP counseling, IP litigation, IP transactions support, licensing, and patent and trademark agency services. We serve many of the world’s leading organizations representing the broad spectrum of industries.

Intellectual Property Litigation

Smart & Biggar is a dominant force in intellectual property litigation. We are efficient and highly effective trial lawyers, and no other Canadian firm can claim a more distinguished and successful record. We routinely handle Canada’s most commercially important and technically complex intellectual property cases. Many  of our victories on behalf of our clients are leading Canadian precedents, and we have represented clients  in the Supreme Court of Canada on more than 50 occasions.

Our formidable team of litigators provides clients with the unparalleled protection they need. We litigate across Canada — in both the Common Law and Civil Law Courts, at the highest appellate levels and in  both official languages. We represent clients in the Federal Court of Canada, and in the Provincial Courts  of Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. We also have significant experience in multijurisdictional cases, successfully representing clients in Canadian disputes and actively involved in the coordination of litigation strategies worldwide.

We know what it takes for our clients to win in high stakes IP litigation. We provide clients with a rare combination of successful trial experience and deep and sophisticated subject matter expertise and analysis — resulting in victories for clients at all levels, in all areas of IP. And because we know the importance of providing our clients with a competitive advantage, we are able to draw upon these skills and experience to develop and provide our clients with effective enforcement and litigation strategies. Smart & Biggar’s Litigation Practice Group has vast experience and success in all areas of IP litigation, including:

• patent litigation • trademark and trade-dress litigation • copyright litigation • industrial design litigation • false and misleading advertising litigation
• trade secrets litigation • anti-counterfeiting and IP crime litigation • domain name disputes and litigation • alternative dispute resolution

Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar is recognized as Canada’s leading IP litigation firm. The breadth and depth of our litigation group has been recognized both internationally and within the Canadian legal community, and many of our team members have been honoured by leading industry publications, including:

• Canada’s “IP Litigation Firm of the Year” – Benchmark Canada Awards 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
• Canada’s “Go-to firm for IP litigation” – The Legal 500 Canada 2017 Edition
• Five leading lawyers recognized across he areas of intellectual property, intellectual property litigation and Biotechnology – The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2017 Edition
• Canadian Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year and recipient of Milestone Case of the Year for North America. – Managing Intellectual Property’s North America Awards 2017
• Achieved the highest ranking as a Canadian Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year and awarded Milestone Case of the Year for North America. – Managing Intellectual Property’s 2017 World IP Survey
• Achieved the highest ranking as a Band 1 firm in Canadian intellectual property law firm – Chambers Canada Awards 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

Other offices

Toronto
Box 111 Suite 1500
438 University Avenue
Toronto ON  M5G 2K8
Canada
Phone: 416.593.5514
Fax: 416.591.1690
toronto@smart-biggar.ca

Montreal
Suite 3300
1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Montreal QC  H3B 4W5
Canada
Phone: 514.954.1500
Fax: 514.954.1396
montreal@smart-biggar.ca

Vancouver
2300-1055 West Georgia Street
PO Box 11115
VancouverBC  V6E 3P3
Canada
Phone: 604.682.7780
Fax: 604.682.0274
vancouver@smart-biggar.ca

Calgary
BurnsBuilding
301-237 8th Avenue SE
CalgaryAB  T2G 5C3
Canada
Phone: 587.887.9997
Fax: 587.887.9998
calgary@smart-biggar.ca

Last updated March 6th 2018