J Sheldon Hamilton

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Sheldon Hamilton is a Principal in Smart & Biggar’s Toronto office with over 25 years of experience acting as lead counsel on complex high stakes matters for many of the world’s most innovative companies, successfully protecting their commercially valuable IP assets in Canada. He is acknowledged as one of Canada’s leading patent litigation lawyers for novel case work at the Federal Court in addition to more recent high-profile representations before the PMNOC, including a case that clarified PMNOC procedure. Sheldon has been featured as a leading litigator in Benchmark Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Euromoney LMG Expert Guides: Life Sciences and Patents, LMG Life Sciences, MIP IP Stars: Patents, WIPR Leaders, The Legal 500 Canada, Who’s Who Legal for Canada, IP, Patents, and Life Sciences, IAM Patent Litigation 250, IAM Life Sciences 250, IAM Patent 1000, Lexpert Guide to US/Canada Cross-Border Lawyers in Canada, Lexpert’s Special Editions on Litigation, Health Sciences, and Technology, and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for IP, IP Litigation, and Biotechnology. At the end of 2020, he was awarded the LMG Life Sciences ‘Canadian Patent Litigator of the Year’ award.