PUBLICATIONS
Archives copies of most publications are freely accessible from my QUB Pure profile. If you require the full electronic version of any publications, please get in touch with me by email.
Below is a partial list of my publications, organised thematically. The full list is available on my Google Scholar profile.
© 2025 Jocelyn Bosse, taken at the Jardin des plantes d'Angers, France.
Plant variety rights and plant patents
2024 ‘Re-examining the “wild” story of the ayahuasca plant patent,’ Intellectual Property Quarterly 136-162. Part of a special issue in honour of Professor Margaret Llewelyn.
2023 ‘Seeds of Change: New Zealand’s Plant Variety Rights Act 2022 and its implications for Australia,’ Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin 35(10): 189-191.
2020 ‘Before the High Court: the legal systematics of Cannabis,’ Griffith Law Review 29(2): 302-329. DOI.
PLANTS, FOOD, AND THE REGULATION OF GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES
I am paying attention to the intellectual property aspects of the regulation of “precision breeding” or “new genomic techniques” (NGTs) in the UK and EU.
2020 ‘The Cosmopolitics of Food Futures: Imagining Nature, Law, and Apocalypse,’ co-authored with Xan Chacko and Susannah Chapman, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 34(6): 1-19. DOI.
© from the film poster for Seed: The Untold Story, critically discussed in Bosse, Chacko & Chapman (2020).
© 2025 Jocelyn Bosse, taken in Sydney, Australia
Access and Benefit sharing laws
2025 ‘Rethinking the law on access and benefit sharing in Australia,’ Melbourne University Law Review 48(3), forthcoming.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the author list below contains the name of a deceased person.
2020 ‘Australia’s plants and animals have long been used without Indigenous consent. Now Queensland has taken a stand,’ co-authored with David Claudie (Kuuku I'yu Northern Kaanju Traditional Owner), David J. Jefferson, Margaret (Miri) Raven, and Daniel F. Robinson, The Conversation.
During the development of this article, we found that The Conversation’s authorship policies failed to properly recognise Indigenous knowledge.
Our criticism resulted in policy changes to ensure the contributions of Indigenous knowledge holders are properly credited, see editorial here.
2018 ‘The making or breaking of the Queensland Biodiscovery Act,’ Australian Environment Review 33(3): 63-67.
This article advocated for the protection of traditional knowledge under the Queensland access and benefit sharing laws.
Amendments in 2020 introduced a ‘Traditional Knowledge Obligation’ in sections 9A-9D of the Biodiscovery Act 2004.
INVENTIONS, WAR, SECRECY, AND SOVIET HISTORY
2025 ‘Invention Secrecy in the Soviet Union: Exploring the role of intellectual property in the Space Race,’ co-authored with Johanna Dahlin, forthcoming in P. Sean Morris (ed), The Cold War Structure of International Intellectual Property Law, 1946–1980 (Brill).
2023 ‘Spectres of Intellectual Property in the Soviet Union: The Development and Recognition of the Inventor’s Certificate,’ co-authored with Johanna Dahlin, Pólemos: Journal of Law, Literature and Culture 17(2): 293-316.
I have been incrementally working on project about the secrecy orders for patent applications that may threaten national security. In 2017, an early version this essay won the 3rd prize in The John McLaren Emmerson QC Essay Prize of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ).
Soviet inventor’s certificate no. 1,840,529 (filed 1980) for space station equipment. Subject to a secrecy order and withheld from publication until 2007.
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FIND MY POSTS ON THE IPKAT
I am a frequent contributor to the popular European intellectual property blog, The IPKat. You can view my posts here.
My general focus is plant variety rights and other IP issues for plants, food, and agriculture.
Currently, I am also the Book Review Editor.