IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2020 Winners!

Thank you to readers for voting in the IPKat book of the year awards, here are your 2020 nominees and winners!

Best Patent Law Book

The nominations were:

Till Andlauer, Stefan Ahlers, Thomas Eißfeller and Christoph Schindler, EPC.App: The Self-Editable Commented European Patent Convention (Independently published 2020)

Colin Birss, Andrew Waugh, Tom Mitcheson, Douglas Campbell, Justin Turner and Tom Hinchliffe, Terrell on the Law of Patents (2020) IPKat book review here

Oliver Gassmann, Martin Bader, Mark James Thompson, Patent Management: Protecting Intellectual Property and Innovation (Springer 2020) IPKat book review here

Graeme Gooday, Patent Cultures (Cambridge University Press 2020) 

And the winner of best Patent book 2020 is: 

Oliver Gassmann, Martin Bader, Mark James Thompson, Patent Management: Protecting Intellectual Property and Innovation (Springer 2020)

Best Copyright Law Book

The nominations were:

Tanya Aplin and Lionel Bently, Global Mandatory Fair Use: The Nature and Scope of the Right to Quote Copyright Works (Cambridge University Press 2020) IPKat book review coming soon!

Enrico Bonadio, Protecting Art in the Street (Dokument Press 2020)

Jane Ginsburg, Deep Dive: Burrow-Giles Lithographing v. Sarony (US 1884) Copyright Protection for Photographs and Concepts of Authorship in an Age of Machines (Twelve Tables Press 2020)

Paul Heald, Copy This Book!: What Data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good (Stanford University Press 2020)

Emily Hudson, Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action (Cambridge University Press 2020) IPKat book review coming soon!

Stavroula Karapapa, Defences to Copyright Infringement Creativity, Innovation and Freedom on the Internet

(Oxford University Press 2020)

Jani McCutcheon and Ana Ramalho (eds) International Perspectives on Disability Exceptions in Copyright Law and the Visual Arts Feeling Art (Routledge 2020)

Oreste Pollicino, Giovanni Maria Riccio and Marco Bassini, Copyright and Fundamental Rights in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis in Search of a Common Constitutional Ground (Edward Elgar 2020) This Kat is currently reading, review imminent!

Martin Skladany, Copyright's Arc (Cambridge University Press 2020) IPKat book review here

The winner of Best Copyright book 2020 is:

Stavroula Karapapa, Defences to Copyright Infringement Creativity, Innovation and Freedom on the Internet

(Oxford University Press 2020)

Best book on Trade Mark Law

The nominations were:

Irene Calboli and Jane C. Ginsburg (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law (Cambridge University Press 2020)

Michal Bohaczewski, Special Protection of Trade Marks with a Reputation under European Union Law, (Kluwer 2020) IPKat book review here

The winner is: 

Irene Calboli and Jane C. Ginsburg (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law (CUP 2020)

Best Book on Design Law

The nomination was: 

Gordian Hasselblatt (ed) Community Design Regulation:An Article by Article Commentary (Hart 2020)

And therefore the Winner is: 

Gordian Hasselblatt (ed) Community Design Regulation:An Article by Article Commentary (Hart 2020)

Intellectual Property Law Book of the Year

The nominations were:

Ryan Abbott, The Reasonable Robot, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Cambridge University Press 2020) IPKat book review here 

Yann Basire (ed) Propriété intellectuelle et pop culture (Lexis 2020) IPKat book review here

Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões, Danny Friedmann, Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market (Brill 2020) IPKat book review coming soon!

Giancarlo Frosio (ed) Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability (Oxford University Press 2020)

Daniel J Gervais (ed) Morality and Ordre Public in Intellectual Property (Edward Elgar 2020)

Eva-Maria Kieninger (ed) Security Rights in Intellectual Property (Springer 2020)

Anjali Vats, The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans (Stanford University Press 2020)

And the Winner is: 

Giancarlo Frosio (ed) Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability (OUP 2020)

Con-KAT-ulations to all those nominated and this year's winners! We look forward to reading and reviewing more IP books in 2021!

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 2020. 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.