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Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition

In March, the BIPLA successfully hosted the Northeast Regional section of the AIPLA Giles S. Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition.  Law students from all over the northeast came to Suffolk Law School to present oral arguments in Pygmalion Inc. v. Wonderland, Inc. The student teams presented arguments on whether Pygmalion’s patent directed to systems and methods of reducing motion sickness in virtual reality headsets was valid under 35 U.S.C. §101. The teams also disputed whether Pygmalion had identified its trade secrets with sufficient particularity to support its misappropriation claim against Wonderland, which had developed a rival VR headset to compete with Pygmalion’s.  Many thanks to the BIPLA members, including both litigators and non-litigators, who judged the briefs and the oral arguments, to Ian Sterlin of McCarter & English and Michael Schmitt of Choate for coordinating the regional competition, and to Suffolk Law School for hosting the oral arguments.