22nd Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot Competition

Thursday 20 to Saturday 23 March 2025

The 2025 moot problem concerns the case Multilever plc v Greenland Supermarket plc [2024] HCE 337. The legal issues in this case relate to registered trade marks, in particular, issues in relation to confusing similarity and the role and content of blurring and tarnishment as trade mark harms.

Congratulations to the 32 teams that competed at the Oral Proceedings:

• The Australian National University, Australia
• Bucerius Law School, Germany
• City, University of London, UK
• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Goethe Universität, Germany
• Gujarat National Law University, India
• King’s College London, UK
• Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
• Maastricht University, the Netherlands
• Monash University, Australia
• NALSAR University of Law, India
• National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India
• National Law University Delhi, India
• National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi, India
• National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India
• Tsinghua University, China
• Universität Bern, Switzerland
• University College London, UK
• University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• University of New South Wales, Australia
• University of Ottawa, Canada
• University of Sheffield, UK
• University of Strasbourg, France
• University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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