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Research Focus
Dr Bosse is an intellectual property scholar specialising in plant variety rights law. She holds a Future Leaders Fellowship to support her research project entitled "A Century of Propertising Plants: Examining the Role of Intellectual Property Law in Protecting Biodiversity and Food Security." She routinely writes about plant variety rights and other IP issues for the prominent European intellectual property law blog, the IPKat.
Dr Bosse is broadly interested in the relationship between intellectual property and plants, food, and agriculture. She has published on access and benefit sharing laws, the US Plant Patent Act of 1930, and the law on geographical indications. In addition to her research on plant inventions, Dr Bosse is interested in other types of sui generis protections, especially the socialist inventor’s certificate system.
Teaching
Dr Bosse is currently on research leave to pursue her Future Leaders Fellowship project.
Previously, Dr Bosse has engaged in research-led teaching in intellectual property law, especially patents, trade marks, geographical indications, and plant variety rights. She has also taught core modules, such as 'Company Law and Corporate Governance.' Dr Bosse became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2023.
Particulars
Dr Bosse was awarded her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her dissertation was awarded the 2023 Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Australian Legal Research Awards (ALRA) PhD Award. She holds bachelors degrees in law and the plant sciences, as well as a diploma in French.
She joined Queen's University Belfast in October 2023, having previously taught intellectual property law at King's College London and the University of Reading. She is admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Before the High Court: the legal systematics of cannabis
Bosse, J., 25 Nov 2020, In: Griffith Law Review. 29, 2, p. 302-329Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The cosmopolitics of food futures: imagining nature, law, and apocalypse
Bosse, J., Chacko, X. & Chapman, S., 22 Nov 2020, In: Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 34, 6, p. 840-857Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Seeds of change: New Zealand’s Plant Variety Rights Act 2022 and its implications for Australia
Bosse, J., 01 Apr 2023, In: Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin. 35, 10, p. 189-191Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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From traditional knowledge to market: a pathway for ethical commercialisation of Indigenous food products
Cartwright, J., Bosse, J., Thomson, M., Sultanbawa, Y. F., Netzel, M. E. & Wright, O. R. L., 05 Feb 2026, (Early online date) In: Plants People Planet. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Restore balance to European geographical indications protection: evoking the British law on extended passing off
Zappalaglio, A. & Bosse, J., 02 Mar 2026, (Early online date) In: IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. 57, 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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2023 Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Theses - University of Queensland
Bosse, J. (Recipient), 16 Feb 2024
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Faculty Research Initiatives Fund (FRIF) award for project "Protecting Food Security through Intellectual Property Protection for Potatoes"
Bosse, J. (Recipient), 12 Dec 2024
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Shortlisted - Australian Legal Research Awards (ALRA) PhD Prize 2024
Bosse, J. (Recipient), 02 Jul 2024
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Activities
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Mid-Term Meeting of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
Bosse, J. (Presenter)
05 Feb 2026 → 06 Feb 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Colonial Legacies of Intellectual Property
Bosse, J. (Participant)
30 Jan 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Roses as Intellectual Property: A History
Bosse, J. (Keynote speaker)
12 Nov 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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NGTs and the Future of Plant Breeding panel
Bosse, J. (Invited speaker)
26 Sept 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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Global perspectives and international law dimensions of NGT plant innovation in Europe
Bosse, J. (Keynote speaker)
25 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
Press/Media
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Interviewed on the EU Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) Seeds of Tomorrow podcast on episide entitled "Innovation Meets Intellectual Property Law"
12/01/2026
1 Media contribution
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Interviewed on the LawPod podcast for episode "Seeds, Science, and Law: How Intellectual Property Shapes Our Food Future"
04/12/2025
1 Media contribution
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Quoted in press coverage in the World Trademark Review about New Zealand rejecting India's application to register "Basmati rice" as a certification mark
07/11/2025
1 item of Media coverage
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