Smart & Biggar is a Canadian law firm

Law firm

A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service rendered by a law firm is to advise clients about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to represent clients in civil or criminal cases, business transactions, and other...

 specializing exclusively in intellectual property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 and technology law. The firm has offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. It is related to the patent

Patent

A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

 agency Fetherstonhaugh, and the two firms operate in unison through common partners, offices and personnel.

The firm was founded by Frederick B. Fetherstonhaugh who opened his patent firm in Toronto in 1890. In 1906, Russel S. Smart launched his Ottawa practice and joined with Fetherstonhaugh to form the common root of the two firms. In 1926, Oliver M. Biggar

Colonel Oliver Mowat Biggar

Colonel Oliver Mowat Biggar was born in Toronto, Canada. His father was Charles Robert Webster Biggar, a lawyer and his mother was Jane Helen Mowat ....

joined to form Smart & Biggar.

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh has over 110 intellectual property professionals across its four offices. It is the largest firm in Canada that specializes exclusively in intellectual property law.