U of T Law students win Fox Intellectual Property Moot

U of T Law students Paul Jeronimo, Amanda Wolczanski, Sara Bolourchian, Aya Schechner (student coach) and Samantha Hargreaves.

The Harold G. Fox Moot promotes the advancement of education in the intellectual property field and is named in honour of the late Harold G. Fox, one of Canada’s leading intellectual property scholars and advocates. 

This year’s problem involved a multi-jurisdictional dispute relating to three patents. Mooters prepared written and oral submissions about the validity of a new-use patent, the doctrine of implied license and the applicability of the doctrine of international exhaustion in Canadian law.

U of T law students Samantha Hargreaves and Paul Jeronimo (appellants) and Sara Bolourchian and Amanda Wolczanski (respondents) took the top prize against 12 participating law schools from across Canada, including best oralist, Bolourchian.

Bolourchian and a teammate will compete next year at the Oxford International IP moot, hosted by the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC) at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law.

The team was coached by third-year law students Mehak Kawatra, Dan Poliwoda and Aya Schechner as well as intellectual property legal experts Dominique Hussey, a partner at Bennett Jones, and Andy Shaughnessy, a partner at Tory’s LLP.