Canada’s new Patent Rules: twelve notable changes and tips
Vancouver Partner, Mark Pidkowich and Patent Agent, Matthew Leaper will share their knowledge at “Grow Your Assets - Intellectual Property for the cannabis Industry,” a conference focused on managing intellectual property in Canada’s new cannabis landscape.
On Wednesday, February 20th Smart & Biggar will host “Trademarks & IP: Branding Beyond the Basics”, an IP Masterclass at Ottawa’s Bayview Yards.
Smart & Biggar has once again been selected as a winner of the National Capital Region’s Top Employers award.
Smart & Biggar is pleased to have three delegates attend the AIPLA Mid-Winter Meeting from January 30 to February 2, 2019. Firm Partners, Daphne Lainson, David Schwartz and Matthew Zischka will travel to Tampa, Florida to network and engage with other AIPLA members.
Partner Alice Tseng will participate in the Toronto Lawyers Association’s (TLA) first ‘Nutshell and Soiree’ of 2019 — How the Legalizationof Cannabis can affect your Practice. The event will take place in the TLA Lawyers Lounge at 361 University Avenue Court House, on January 24th.
2018 was an exciting year for the trademarks profession in Canada. The long awaited changes to our trademark law will finally be implemented this year, which will be bring us in line with rest of the world.
The Canadian Federal government’s proposed amendments to the Cannabis Act and Regulations were published last month.
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Recently the province of Quebec’s Ministry of Economy and Innovation launched a new Innovation Program (Programme Innovation) to provide Québec-based companies with up to $500 000 of financial assistance in support of the development of new products and other key business assets. The pro
2018 served up a smorgasbord of disparate patent law developments in Canada. Most notably, ratification of a new trade agreement negotiated amongst Canada, the United States and Mexico would require introduction of a patent term extension system and lengthening of data protection for biologics.
Earlier this month we published an exhaustive review of the life sciences and regulatory cases in the Canadian courts, and decisions on the merits for the year are summarized in our in our Rx IP Update 2018 Highlights in Canadian Life Sciences IP.
Smart & Biggar today announced it has been recognized as a Band 1 Intellectual Property law firm in the 2019 edition of Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Smart & Biggar is pleased to announce that Steven Garland has received Lexology’s Client Choice award for Intellectual Property: Patents for the second consecutive year.
Smart & Biggar is pleased to be shortlisted for Benchmark Canada’s IP Litigation Firm of the Year. The firm is honoured to have received this award since 2015.
Smart & Biggar continues to be an industry leader with a ‘gold tier’ status in Canadian trademarks in the 2019 World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000) – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. Acclaimed as a “gold-studded outfit [in] a premier position to handle absolutely anything related to intellectual property”
