Report on the Giles Rich Moot Court Competition

2016 Ⓒ Boston Patent Law Association

The

43rd Annual AIPLA Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition

for the Northeastern Region was held March 11-13, 2016, at Suffolk University Law School. 13 teams competed in the event, including students from

Brooklyn Law School

Columbia Law School

Georgetown University Law Center

New England Law School

Rutgers School of Law

Suffolk University Law School

Temple University Beasley School of Law

Touro College Jacob D. Fuschsberg Law Center

(Long Island, New York)

University of Baltimore School of Law

, and

University of New Hampshire School of Law

. On March 11 all 13 teams participated in two rounds of oral arguments from which four teams moved on to the Semi-Finals. Several awards were also presented after the oral arguments.

Jordyn Eisenpress

and John Fraser from

Columbia Law School

won the award for the Best Appellant Brief and

Vincent Pontrello

and

Alexandra Troiano

from

Brooklyn Law School

won the award for the Best Appellee Brief. The highest score in the first round of competition for the oral arguments was earned by

Jency Mathew

and

Kaitlin Halsell

from

Temple University Beasley School of Law

, and thus they were presented with the award for Best Advocates.

On March 12, the Semi-Finals were held in which

Eisenpress

and Fraser from

Columbia Law School

Christine Chen

and

Antonia Hyman

from

Columbia Law School

Mathew

and

Halsell

from

Temple University Beasley School of Law

, and

Gregory De Tolla

and Stephani Schendingler from

Touro College Jacob D. Fuschsberg Law Center

competed in oral arguments. In an all-Columbia Semi-Final,

Eisenpress

and Fraser argued for the appellant against

Chen

and

Hyman

, who argued for the appellee. Meanwhile,

Mathew

and

Halsell

argued for the appellant against

De Tolla

and Schendingler, who argued for the appellee. At the end of the Semi-Finals, the two teams that moved onto the Finals were

Eisenpress

and Fraser from

Columbia Law School

and

Mathew

and

Halsell

from

Temple University Beasley School of Law

On March 13, the Finals were held where

Eisenpress

and Fraser argued for the appellant against

Mathew

and

Halsell

, who argued for the appellee. The overall winner for the 2016 Regional Giles Rich Moot Court Competition was

Eisenpress

and Fraser from

Columbia Law School

. Both pairs of Finalists will compete in the national competition on April 13-15, 2016, in Washington DC. We would like to extend a special thank you to all the volunteer judges who made this year’s competition successful. Our volunteers for grading briefs included:

Kevin Perkins

Kristina Cary

Peter Byrne

Chris Melendez

, and

Arcangelo Cella

. Our volunteers for the oral arguments included:

Tom Johnston

Frank Liu

Bob Asher

Colleen Witherell

Josh Matloff