The Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot

UPDATE Monday 26 January 2026: We will soon begin sending invitations to successful teams. Keep an eye on your inboxes. 

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. 

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.

The key dates and milestones for the Written Phase of the competition are as follows.

The registration process will not open until after invitations have been issued to compete at the oral rounds. These invitations will be issued in late January 2026. Only those teams who are invited to the oral rounds will need to register and pay the registration fee.