IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2025 winners announced!

We are delighted to announce this year's winners of the IPKat Book of the Year Awards! 

The Jury 

Graphic by Riana Harvey.

This year, we have changed how the awards are decided. The winning titles were selected by a distinguished jury of seven experts. There were many excellent IP books published in 2025 that deserved recognition, which made it challenging to decide on a single winner for each category. We are immensely grateful to the jury members for giving their time and expertise to arrive at these tough decisions. 

The jury members were, in alphabetical order by last name: Lord Justice Richard Arnold (Court of Appeal of England & Wales), Antonios Baris (International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations), Dr Hayleigh Bosher (Brunel University of London), Dr Daria Kim (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), Philipp von Kapff (EUIPO Boards of Appeal),  Adela (Zhixuan) Wang (Queen Mary University of London), and Dr Evana Wright (University of Technology Sydney).

The jury members contributed in their personal capacities, and the views expressed through the selection of the winning books do not represent the positions of any organisations with which they may be affiliated.

The assessment process was a group effort. Decisions were reached collectively, with each juror contributing according to their areas of expertise and the time available to engage with the books. The deliberations drew on their collective breadth of knowledge and perspectives, rather than requiring each juror to evaluate every eligible title. This Kat chaired the deliberations in her capacity as Book Review editor, but did not vote at any stage of the selection process.

Without further ado, the winners!

Best Book on Patents

Sub-patent Innovation Rights: Utility Models, Petty Patents and Innovation Patents Around the World

edited by Jorge L. Contreras

Cambridge University Press

Best Book on Copyright

The Moral Rights of Authors and Artists: From the Birth of Copyright to the Age of Artificial Intelligence, second edition

Mira T. Sundara Rajan

Oxford University Press

The book was reviewed for the IPKat here.

Best Book on Designs

Stone on European Union Design Law: A Practitioners’ Guide, third edition

David Stone 

Oxford University Press

The book was reviewed for the IPKat here.

Best Book on Trade Marks or Geographical Indications

Worldwide Perspectives on Geographical Indications: Crossed views between researchers, policy makers and practitioners

edited by Emilie Vandecandelaere, Delphine Marie-Vivien, Erik Thévenod-Mottet, Maria Bouhaddane, Valérie Pieprzownik, Florence Tartanac, and Ida Puzone

Springer

Best IP Book in a Language other than English

Markenrecht: Kommentar zum Markengesetz (MarkenG) und zum Internationalen Markenrecht, der Pariser Verbandsübereinkunft (PVÜ) und des Madrider Markenabkommens (MMA), sixth edition

Karl-Heinz Fezer

C.H. Beck

Best book on IP Generally (more than one area of IP)

The Handbook of Fashion Law

edited by Eleonora Rosati and Irene Calboli

Oxford University Press

The book was reviewed for the IPKat here.

This Kat would like to extend her hearty congratulations to this year's winners! 

Many thanks again to the jury for their participation in the 2025 awards. The IPKat will continue to read and review the excellent scholarship that is published by the IP community around the world and we look forward to recognising some of you in the next edition of the Book of the Year Awards.