IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2019 winners announced!

Thank you to those readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards. Here are the nominees and winners -

Best Patent Law Book
The nominations were:

Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention, by Derk Visser, Laurence Lai, Peter de Lange, Kaisa Suominen

Patent Remedies and Complex Products Toward a Global Consensus, edited by C. Bradford Biddle, Jorge L. Contreras, Brian J. Love, and Norman V. Siebrasse


And the winner is: 

Patent Remedies and Complex Products Toward a Global Consensus, C. Bradford Biddle, Jorge L. Contreras, Brian J. Love, and Norman V. Siebrasse !




Best Copyright Law Book

The nominations were:




The Cambridge Handbook of Graffiti in Copyright and Street Art, edited by Enrico Bonadio [IPKat review forthcoming]

The winner of Best Copyright Book 2019 is:

Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union by Eleonora Rosati !



Best book on Trade Mark Law

The nominations were:


The winner is: 

The Confusion Test European Trade Mark Law, by Dev Gangjee and Ilhana Fhima !



Best Book on Design Law

The nominations were: 


And the Winner is: 

European Fashion Law: A Practical Guide from Start-Up to Global Success, by Rosie Burbidge ! 



Intellectual Property Law Book of the Year

The nominations were:


A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects, edited by Claudy Op Den Kamp and Dan Hunter [IPKat book review here]

Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law, by edited by Ben Depoorter, Peter Menell, Peter Menell, and David Schwartz

Intellectual Property Law, by Stavroula Karapapa and Luke Mcdonagh 




Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy, by Abbe Brown, Smita Kheria, Jane Cornwell, and Marta Iljadica

And the Winner is: 

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects, edited by Claudy Op Den Kamp and Dan Hunter !



Con-KAT-ulations to all those nominated and this years winners! We look forward to reading and reviewing more IP books in 2020!

Please note: Some nominations do not appear in the list above, this is because some nominations were excluded for example for not being a book about IP Law, or not being published in 2019. Votes for books that were nominated in the wrong category (e.g. a trade mark book nominated in the copyright category) were counted towards the book in the relevant category.