Ella O’ Sullivan

Biography

Ella has completed a BCL, LLM and PhD at University College Cork. Her LLM dissertation focused on the duty of care owed to children in schools from the perspective of the law of negligence. Her PhD examined the application of public order and morality exclusions in European patent law. In 2008 her essay based on the application of patent law to transgenic animals in Europe was awarded second place in the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research of Intellectual Property Essay Competition (http://www.atrip.org/Essays). In 2012 an article examining the law relating to the patentability of human embryonic stem cells in Australia and Europe was awarded first place in the Australian Intellectual Property Journal Essay Competition.

Research Interest

Intellectual Property law and the application of ethical concerns in the context of granting patent protection for biotechnological inventions