Shamnad Basheer
Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer founded SpicyIP in 2005. He's also the Founder of IDIA, a project to train underprivileged students for admissions to the leading law schools.
He served for two years as an expert on the IP global advisory council (GAC) of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In 2015, he received the Infosys Prize in Humanities in 2015 for his work on legal education and on democratising the discourse around intellectual property law and policy. The jury was headed by Nobel laureate, Prof. Amartya Sen.
Professional History:
After graduating from the NLS, Bangalore Prof. Basheer joined Anand and Anand, one of India’s leading IP firms. He went on to head their telecommunication and technology practice and was rated by the IFLR as a leading technology lawyer.
He left for the University of Oxford to pursue post-graduate studies, completing the BCL, MPhil and DPhil as a Wellcome Trust scholar. His first academic appointment was at the George Washington University Law School, where he served as the Frank H Marks Visiting Associate Professor of IP Law. He then relocated to India in 2008 to take up the MHRD Chaired Professorship in IP Law at WB NUJS, a leading Indian law school. Later, he was the Honorary Research Chair of IP Law at Nirma University and also a visiting professor of law at the National Law School (NLS), Bangalore.
Prof. Basheer has published widely and his articles have won awards, including those instituted by ATRIP, the Stanford Technology Law Review and CREATe. He was consulted widely by the government, industry, international organisations and civil society on a variety of IP issues. He also served on several government committees.
The complilation is interesting but the title ‘breaking news’ is more than a little, inappropriate. Hardly is breaking news. An honest comment, nothing else. Keep up the good work
Please put up details in reference to IPAB also filings and disposals, we can force the authorities to have some sort of legal audit on its all aspects
“One hopes that some of this money makes its way into ramping up the IP databases”.Shocked to see such a statement from Shamnad. Was expecting that he would be aware that all income from Govt offices go to the consolidated fund of India and return as plan/non-plan funds for respective ministries which are in no way proportional to the income generated by the offices involved.Although the Indian Patent Office generates such a huge revenue, it gets back a fraction of that amount as developmental funds from the ministry. Even this amount is not fully utilized and a major part is returned unutilized.