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

The Patentability of Software, by Anton Hughes

Global Patent Protection and Enforcement of In Vitro Diagnostic, Inventions by Lisa Mueller 

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:

Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union, by Eleonora Rosati [IPKat review here]

Law Technology and Cognition: The Human Element in Online Copyright Infringement, by Hayleigh Bosher [IPKat review forthcoming]

The Right of Communication to the Public in EU Copyright Law, By Justin Koo [IPKat review here]

Copyright and Collective Authorship: Locating the Authors of Collaborative Work, by Daniela Simone [IPKat review forthcoming]

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:

Digital Brand Protection: Investigating Brand Piracy & Intellectual Property Abuse, by Steven Ustel

Likelihood of Confusion in Trade Mark Law: A Practical Guide to the Case Law of EU Courts, by Jeroen Muyldermans, Paul Maeyaert

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

The winner is: 

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

Best Book on Design Law

The nominations were: 

European Fashion Law: A Practical Guide from Start-Up to Global Success, by Rosie Burbidge [IPKat review here]

The EU Design Approach: A Global Appraisal, edited by Annette Kur, Marianne Levin and Jens Schovsbo

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:

Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Mira T. Sundara Rajan

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 

The Sir Hugh Laddie Lectures The First Ten Years, edited by Robin Jacob [IPKat review here]

Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence, by by Jacob Turner [IPKat review here]

A Practical Guide to the Law of Domain Names and Cybersquatting, by Andrew Clemson [IPKat review here]

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.