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I am available to supervise doctoral projects dealing with industrial property (patents, trade marks, and plant variety rights).

20162026

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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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