Daphne Lainson

Daphne Lainson


Smart & Biggar

Recognized since 2014

Ottawa, Ontario

Practice Areas

Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice

Intellectual Property Law

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
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Daphne Lainson is a Principal in Smart & Biggar's Ottawa office and head of the firm’s life sciences practice. She specializes in securing patent protection for chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology related inventions. She is a lawyer, a qualified patent and trademark agent, and holds an advanced degree in chemistry. She has been assisting clients with securing patent protection for their innovations for over a decade.

Daphne champions and safeguards the intellectual property rights of her clients, protecting their inventions in new drugs, biologics, medical devices, consumer products, agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, industrial chemical processes, oil, gas and petrochemicals.

She also provides advice to clients on pharmaceutical regulatory law. This includes providing strategic advice during patent prosecution and following patent grant for both pharmaceuticals and biologics. She is called upon to advise innovative pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies in matters relating to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations and the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board.

Daphne is sought after to provide advice and guidance to many of the top global innovators.

She is actively involved in the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). She is currently the co-chair of the IP Practice in Japan Committee, immediate past chair of the AIPLA Mentoring Committee, and past chair of the AIPLA Women in Intellectual Property Law Committee.

She plays a leading role in client relations management within the firm, particularly in key industrial markets, such as the U.S., Japan and Germany.

Location
  • 55 Metcalfe Street, Suite 900
    P.O. Box 2999, Station D
    Ottawa, ON K1P 5Y6
    Canada
Education
  • University of Windsor, LL.B., graduated 1999
  • Queen’s University, M.Sc. (Chemistry), graduated 1996
  • Queen’s University, B.Sc. Hons. (Chemistry), graduated 1994
Bar Admissions
  • Ontario, Ontario Bar 2001
Affiliations
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association - Member
  • Canadian Bar Association; member of the Patent Committee - Member
  • Chemical Institute of Canada, Canadian Society for Chemistry - Member
  • Intellectual Property Institute of Canada - Fellow
  • The Women's Business Network of Ottawa - Member

Smart & Biggar
Headquarters: Ottawa, Ontario

32 The Best Lawyers in Canada awards

2 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada awards

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice, Ottawa, Canada (2024)
  • Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice, Ottawa, Canada (2022)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2024 for work in:
  • Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
  • Intellectual Property Law

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by Daphne Lainson

Supreme Court of Canada

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