Philip Lapin

Philip Lapin

Principal at Smart & Biggar
(613) 232-2536
55 Metcalfe St, Suite 900, PO Box 2999, Stn D, Ottawa, ON
Year called to bar: 1995 (ON)
Philip Lapin, one of Canada's leading trademark lawyers, is a principal in Smart & Biggar's Ottawa office and chairman of the firm’s trademark operations group. With over 25 years of experience, he manages trademark portfolios and provides strategic advice for many Canadian and multinational corporations. He has handled the clearance, prosecution, and registration of thousands of trademarks. he has particular experience in trademark opposition and cancelation proceedings before the Trademarks Office. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada, World Trademark Review 1000, Euromoney's Expert Guides: Guide to the World's Leading Trademark Law Practitioners, and Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars Handbook: Trademark & Copyright. He is a frequent speaker; author on a wide variety of trademark-related topics, including the "Canada" section of the INTA Country Guides; fellow of IPIC; chairman of the Canadian sub-committee of the INTA non-traditional marks committee; former member of the Canadian Trademark Agent Examination Board (2010–2013); holder of a BSc Hons (computer science) and BCL/LLB; and registered patent and trademark agent. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1995.
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