IPKat Book of the Year 2021 Winners!

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Thank you to readers for voting in the IPKat book of the year awards, here are your 2021 nominees and winners!

Best Patent Law Book

The nominations were:

EPC.App and PCT.App (Self-editable EPC and PCT reference books)

Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: A Global Guide, (eds) Paul W Browning, Christopher C Johns and Sara A Leiman

The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, by Jorge L. Contreras

Patent Law and Women: Tackling Gender Bias in Knowledge Governance, by Jessica Lai

B-Book: How to Reply to an Official Communication and Pass Paper B of the European Qualifying Examination, by Harrie Marsman

Licensing Standard Essential Patents, FRAND and the Internet of Things, by Igor Nikolic

And the winner of best Patent book 2021 is: 

Best Trade Mark Law Book

The nominations were:

International Trademark Licensing, edited by Stojan Arnerstål

A User’s Guide to Trade Marks and Passing Off, by Nicholas Caddick QC, Ben Longstaff, Jamie Muir Wood, and Charlotte Duly

Research Handbook on Trademark Law Reform (eds.) Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis

The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law, by Andrea Zappalaglio 

And the joint winners of best Trade Mark book 2021 are: 

Best Copyright Law Book

The nominations were:

Copyright in the Music Industry, by Hayleigh Bosher

Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest, by Martha Buskirk 

Copinger and Skone James on Copyright, by Nicholas Caddick, QC; Gwilym Harbottle; and Uma Suthersanen

The Present and Future of Music Law, (eds) Ann Harrison and Tony Rigg

Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship, by Luke McDonagh

Implied Licences in Copyright Law, by Poorna Mysoor

Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty, by Tito Rendas

Copyright in the Digital Single Market: Article-by-Article Commentary to the Provisions of Directive 2019/790, by Eleonora Rosati 

The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions, by Shyamkrishna Balganesh and Wee Loon Ng-Lo

EU Copyright Law: A Commentary, (eds) Irini Stamatoudi and Paul Torremans

And the winner of best Copyright book 2021 is: 

Best Design Law Book

The nominations were:

Research Handbook on Design law, (eds) by Henning Hartwig

Navigating Design Law, by David Musker

And the winner of best Design book 2021 is: 

Best IP Law Book

The nominations were:

Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives, (eds) Irene Calboli and Lilla’ Montagnani 

A User’s Guide to Intellectual Property in Life Sciences, by Paul England and Simon Cohen

The Intellectual Property of Nations: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution, by Laura R. Ford

Intellectual Property Enterprise Court: Practice & Procedure (3rd edition), by Angela Fox

The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Under International Investment Law, by Simon Klopschinski, Christopher Gibson, and Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan

Intellectual Property Protection for AI-generated Creations: Europe, United States, Australia and Japan, by Ana Ramalho

Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines, TRIPS Agreement, Health, and Pharmaceuticals, (eds) Srividhya Ragavan, Amaka Vanni

And the winners of best IP book 2021 are: 

Congratulations to all those nominated and this year’s winners! We look forward to reading and reviewing more IP books in 2022!
Please note: Some nominations do not appear in the list above because they were not about IP Law, or were not published in 2021. 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. In addition, voters were asked to only vote once; those who tried to cheat the system and vote more than once had only their first vote counted. 

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