Smart & Biggar is Canada's largest firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law, with offices in Ottawa,
Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Since our inception over a century ago, we have been dedicated to one purpose: delivering unparalleled IP.
We are committed to providing our clients with the highest quality service and advice and we are proud that our services are consistently recognized in surveys of Canadian and international intellectual property practitioners.
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Our team advises clients on a wide variety of existing and emerging IP and technology matters. Click on any of the links below to learn more about a particular practice.
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Elliott Simcoe has over a decade of wide-ranging experience in intellectual property law. His practice is primarily focussed on preparing and prosecuting patent applications in Canada and managing the filing and prosecuting of patent applications worldwide in the fields of electrical and computer engineering. He is also regularly involved with matters relating to patent litigation, Canadian trade-mark drafting and prosecution, and copyrights. He has significant expertise in domain name matters, including acquisition and licensing.
The majority of Mr. Simcoe's work is conducted for clients based in Canada and the United States operating in the fields of electrical and computer engineering. He also provides frequent assistance to associate firms in the United States with procuring intellectual property protection in Canada.
Mr. Simcoe is an editor of IP Perspectives, the firms' intellectual property and technology law newsletter.
Member, International Trademark Association; member of the Online Reference Committee
Member, Canadian Intellectual Property Office Committee of Intellectual Property Experts (Trade-marks and Domain Names)
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Speaking engagements
"Dot com and other dots: choosing top level domains for domain name registration strategies" (moderator), panel discussion at the International Trademark Association's Annual General Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2008
"Regulators and Policy Considerations, Challenges and Realities of Business Method Patents," Patentability of Business Methods Invitational Forum, Alton, ON, April 2008
"Controlling Your IP in a Borderless Electronic World" (moderator), panel discussion at the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s National Spring Meeting, Ottawa, April 2006
Publications
"Round in circles: The regulation of copyright and new media in Canada," Copyright World, March 2006
