Smart & Biggar

Pharmaceutical Litigation

Principal

Sheldon Hamilton is a Principal in Smart & Biggar’s Toronto office and one of Canada��s leading patent litigation lawyers. For more than 30 years, Sheldon has acted as counsel for many of the world’s most innovative companies, successfully protecting their commercially valuable IP assets.

Sheldon has extensive trial experience focusing on issues of patent infringement and validity and damage quantification. He’s praised by clients as a “pharma whiz” for his expertise in pharmaceutical litigation, appearing as both trial and appellate counsel, including in proceedings under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations.

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. He also writes and speaks on intellectual property issues and is actively involved with professional organizations. He is a Fellow of IPIC and a member of AIPPI. BASc (Chemical Engineering); LLB (Toronto). Registered Patent and Trademark Agent.

Fellow, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada; former member of the Litigation and Forums & Seminars Committees Member, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI); member of Amicus Brief Committee (Q. 221) Member and Former Director, The Advocates' Society; Former Vice Chair, Finance and Audit Committee

Ontario Bar, 1992 Registered Patent Agent, 1996 Registered Trademark Agent, 1995 University of Toronto, LL.B., 1990 University of Toronto, B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering), 1987