Professor, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington

Jessica specialises in intellectual property, especially patent law, the protection of Mātauranga Māori, and patents and gender. Jessica is the author of Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights (Springer, 2014) and Patent Law and Women (Routledge, 2022), as well as Patent Law and Policy (LexisNexis, 2016, with Susy Frankel). She is also an author of the Annotated High Court Rules (4th edn, LexisNexis, 2018), as well as numerous articles and chapters, and the editor of multiple books. She was named a Rutherford Discovery Fellow by the Royal Society in 2021, and in 2018, Jessica and Susy Frankel were awarded a Marsden Fund Standard Grant for 2019-2022, for a project on “‘Mission Creep’ in the Pharmaceutical Industry and its Impact on Innovation and Health”.

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