The Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot has been won by QUT students for the second time in the competition's seven-year history.
The law students Tim Wilkins and Srdan Radojevic, along with coach Judith McNamara and researcher Ashleigh Harrold went to Oxford University, UK, to compete in the competition earlier this year.
They faced university teams from 20 countries, including the UK, Canada, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and France.
"We won our first two rounds and scored enough points to get through to the quarter finals, where we faced Oxford University and in a very close moot were successful in winning and advancing," Tim said.
"In the semi-finals we were against a team from the University of British Columbia and in the grand-final we were against University of Edinburgh.
"In the grand-final, we appeared as Ingenious Pty Ltd, a fictional company who had developed a cure to a rare disease and was appealing to the court to uphold a patent over the cure and prove that the Respondent had infringed that patent.
"We were successful in proving that the cure should be patentable and that the patent was infringed, winning us the final."
The team members also won best written submissions and Srdan won the best speaker award.
They were able to attend the competition with support from the law faculty and Srdan has also received a bursary from the Learning Potential Fund to help him study at QUT.
The Learning Potential Fund has assisted to provide more than 5000 scholarships and bursaries for low income students since its inception in 1998. For more information, visit www.giving.qut.edu.au.
Media contact: Rachael Wilson, QUT media officer, 07 3138 1150 or rachael.wilson@qut.edu.au.
