55 Metcalfe St, Suite 900, PO Box 2999, Stn D, Ottawa, ON
Year called to bar: 2000
Jeremy Want is a Principal in Smart & Biggar’s Ottawa office. With over 20 years of experience in IP litigation, he has participated in many successful patent cases (including pharmaceuticals), trademarks, and copyrights. Clients benefit from his involvement at all stages, investigating, preparing, and protecting IP interests in order to effectively minimize their risk and successfully defend their interests. In his IP litigation practice, he regularly represents clients before the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and has also successfully argued cases before the Trademarks Opposition Board. He speaks regularly on issues relating to the Canadian patent system and patent litigation in Canada, including presentations for the Law Society of Ontario and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), and has authored and co-authored a number of papers and practice guides, including the "Canadian" chapters of Chambers Global Practice Guides and Practical Law. He is a fellow of IPIC, a member of IPIC's litigation committee and Ontario Bar Association, a holder of a BSc Hons in chemistry and LLB, and a registered trademark and patent agent. He was called to the Ontario bar in 2000 and the Alberta bar in 2017.
