Nyall Engfield

Nyall Engfield is involved in the preparation and prosecution of patent and industrial design applications, as well as patent, trade-mark and copyright litigation. He also works in the review and preparation of license agreements on a wide range of technologies, and has a special interest in privacy law. Nyall works and serves his clients in English, French and German.

Nyall completed his B.A.Sc. in electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1999. He received an LL.B. from the University of Calgary in 2006, where he won the Felesky Flynn Prize for excellence in taxation law and appeared on the Dean's List. In 2006-2007 he articled at the Federal Court under Hon. Edmond Blanchard, Chief Justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court.

Nyall worked for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange before taking engineering positions with Verizon and ClubMom Inc. in New York City. With an understanding of the interplay between business, technology and law, Nyall focuses on adding value through leveraging intellectual property assets. He has published in the area of copyright law and peer-to-peer file sharing, and has recently won in an Alberta Privacy Commissioner decision regarding the legality of scanning IDs as a prerequisite to entering a bar.

In his spare time Nyall enjoys traveling, cycling, skiing and golf, and in the winter he can be found at Mt. Tremblant most weekends. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Canadian Bar Association. Nyall hosts a website at www.nyall.ca and manages the Canadian Cycling Blog: Greener and Leaner .