The Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot

The 22nd edition of the Oxford IP Moot will take place from Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22 March 2025.

This year's 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 are competing 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

• University of Toronto, Canada

• University of Virginia, US

• University of Warwick, UK

• Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Update 29 September 2024: the problem has been released. It is available here. The rules have also been released, and are available here.

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 mid-January 2025. Only those teams who are invited to the oral rounds will need to register and pay the registration fee.