Shamnad Basheer
Shamnad Basheer | |
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St. Thomas Residential School, National Law School of India University, University of Oxford | |
Occupation(s) | Legal scholar, activist |
Organization | Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access |
Known for | Intellectual property rights |
Parent(s) | Adv. Basheer MM and Late. Seenath Beevi |
Relatives | Nihad Basheer, Nihas Basheer, Nisha Basheer |
Awards | Infosys Prize in Humanities |
Shamnad Basheer (14 May 1976 – c. 8 August 2019) was an Indian
Education and life
Basheer graduated from one of India's premier law schools, the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He then joined Anand and Anand, a leading intellectual property law firm in New Delhi, and worked on a variety of contentious and non-contentious IP matters before being called upon to head the firm's IT and Telecommunications Law Division, India. While in practice, the IFLR 1000 guide rated him as a leading technology lawyer.
Basheer did his post-graduate studies at the University of Oxford. He completed the BCL (as a Shell Centenary scholar) and MPhil with distinction; his thesis dealing with biotechnology and patent law in India was awarded the second prize in a writing contest held by the Stanford Technology Law Review. He read for the DPhil (Ph.D.) and was a Wellcome Trust scholar. He was an invited research fellow at the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP), Tokyo, an International Bar Association (IBA) scholar, and an Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) scholar.
He was an editor of the Oxford Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) and a founding member of EDIP (Electronic Database of Intellectual Property). His research interests included intellectual property issues (particularly patents and copyrights) and innovation/creativity policy, public health, international trade issues, competition law, and issues around legal education.
He spoke on these themes at various conferences and also published papers in leading technology journals such as the Yale Technology Law Journal, Intellectual Property Quarterly, European Intellectual Property Law Review and Journal of Law Technology and Policy. He was a keynote speaker at Consilience 2016, organised by
Death
Basheer was found dead in his car in
Scholarships, prizes and awards
- 2016: Society of Indian Law Firms awarded Shamnad Basheer with Legal Education Innovation Award 2016 in recognition of innovation and leadership in the development of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) and promoting legal careers among the under-privileged.[8]
- Infosys Science Foundation Award, 2014.[9]
- 2007: Awarded the first place in a writing contest held by ATRIP for an article dealing with the Novartis-Gleevec patent case in India.
- 2004: Awarded the second prize in a writing contest held by the Stanford Technology Law Review for an article on biotechnology and patent law in India.
- 2004: Awarded the MS Lin Scholarship to attend the Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) conference in Seoul.
- 2003: Awarded the Wellcome Trust studentship prize and the Clarendon Scholarship for the Mphil/Dphil at Oxford.
- 2003: Awarded a distinction on the BCL at Oxford.
- 2003: Awarded the IBA (International Bar Association) scholarship.
- 2002: Awarded the Shell Centenary-British Chevening Scholarship for the BCL at Oxford.
- 2002: Rated as one of the leading technology lawyers in India by the IFLR 1000 guide (a Euromoney publication) in 2002.
- 2001: Awarded the second best prize by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for an article on "Internet and Intellectual Property Rights".
Books
- Basheer, Shamnad (2013). The Invention of an Investment Incentive for Pharmaceutical Innovation. University of Oxford.
- Basheer, Shamnad; Wilkof, Neil, eds. (2012). Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191642890.
References
- ^ a b "Shamnad Basheer". Infosys Science Foundation. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ "NUJS IP chair prof Shamnad Basheer intervenes in 'epic' SC Novartis case, 'first time in 60 years'". Legally India. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ Vishwanath, Apurva (28 July 2015). "Trademarks Act: apex court dismisses govt appeal". LiveMint. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ "Refusal by Patent Office to provide information under RTI; Salman Khurshid, Joy Basu in Shamnad Basheer's PIL in Delhi HC". Bar and Bench. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ "Consilience 16 | A conference on open access and IP". Archived from the original on 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
- ^ "IDIA Founder and Professor Shamnad Basheer is no more". Bar and Bench. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Legal expert Shamnad Basheer found dead". The Hindu. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ "Society of Indian Law Firms and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training honour Arun Jaitley". Thehansindia.com. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2014 - Shamnad Basheer". Infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved Aug 12, 2019.