91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 intellectual property mooting team achieved new successes for the school by taking two of the top six spots for best speaker at the . Giantommaso Colaneri was the third best speaker in the entire competition, while Laurel Hogg was tied for sixth place.
Nathan Piche, the team鈥檚 other outstanding mooter, would surely have placed just as well, but was technically ineligible for a prize after mooting only one side of the argument. It is a rare feat for multiple mooters from the same school to win best speaker recognition. This is the same team that won Canada鈥檚 in 2014.
The team went undefeated in the preliminary rounds, with a 4鈥0 record against very solid teams from Australia, India, the United Kingdom, and Canada. In the quarter-finals, the always-outstanding team from National University of Singapore advanced with a painfully decided split bench. While the process was unusual, and some observers would have reached another result, one cannot say the outcome was egregious given the calibre of Singapore鈥檚 squad.
Mooters from 91精品黑料吃瓜 have now reached at least the quarter-finals of this competition for the fourth straight year. The consistency of the teams鈥 results is extraordinary. A key reason is our network of IP advocacy students and alumni who support 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 IP mooters.
Special thanks go to the team鈥檚 longstanding financial sponsors and professional mentors at . The law firm of also deserves the school鈥檚 heartfelt gratitude for covering many of the costs of participation through the Dimock Stratton Award for Mooting Excellence, which Laurel Hogg won at last year鈥檚 Fox moot. Our alumni mentors Abigail Smith and Katie Szilagyi take tremendous credit for sharing their invaluable insights and organizing countless sessions with practitioners, law clerks, and other students.
The 2016 Oxford International IP Moot team will be comprised of our 鈥 鈥斺奣racey Doyle, Laura MacDonald, and Fred Wu. Good luck to them as they prepare to further solidify 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 position among the world鈥檚 best.