The Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot
The 23rd edition of the Oxford IP Moot will be held in Oxford in March 2026. The Opening Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 25 March at The Queen's College; the preliminary rounds will be held at the Faculty of Law on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March; and the finals will take place on Saturday 28 March.
The Grand Final bench will comprise Lord Kitchin (former judge of the UK Supreme Court), Lord Justice Birss (Chancellor of the High Court and judge of the Court of Appeal of England & Wales) and Mr Justice Mellor (High Court of England & Wales).
The host college for the moot is The Queen's College.
Instructions and problem
This year's problem relates to the case Aggarwal & Roper Television Productions v Holly-Jaye Hayes [2025] HCE 190. A PDF of the problem (as originally released) is available here. A PDF of the rules is available here. The key change in the rules relates to the registration fee, which has been revised to differentiate between teams with two mooters in attendance in Oxford and those with three mooters in attendance. The Corrections and Clarifications for the 2026 problem are available here (and an updated version of the Problem with the changes from the Corrections and Clarifications here). We make the following two cases available for your research purposes only:
De Maudsley v Palumbo.pdf
Panayiotou v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.pdf
The legal issues in this year's problem cover breach of confidence, contracts in restraint of trade and performers' moral rights. As noted previously, Aggarwal & Roper Television Productions is separately inviting applications to be on the seventh season of hit reality television show, Marriage Maestros, which will also hit Erewhonian screens next March. But hurry! The expert teams are matching couples soon.
Teams Invited to the Oral Proceedings
Congratulations to the 32 teams that have been invited to compete at the Oral Proceedings:
Australian National University, Australia
Bucerius Law School, Germany
DM Harish School of Law, HSNC University, India
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Hidayatullah National Law University, India
King's College London, UK
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Maastricht University, Netherlands
McGill University, Canada
National Law School of India University, India
National Law University, Jodhpur, India
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India
Tsinghua University, China
Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
University College London, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
University of Chicago, USA
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
University of New South Wales, Australia
University of Ottawa, Canada
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Virginia, USA
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
