Shamnad Basheer
Ministry of HRDC Professor in Intellectual Property law, NUJS, Kolkata, India
Shamnad Basheer is the Ministry of HRD Professor of IP Law at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata. Prior to this position, he was the Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law at George Washington University law school. He is also the founder of SpicyIP, a leading blog dedicated to analyzing IP and innovation policy news and cases from India. His expertise is in the area of patents and innovation policy for developing countries, regulation/protection of traditional medicines and international trade issues. In this regard, he has provided strategic advise to the Indian government. He also has practical experience working with a leading IP law firm in India, Anand and Anand, and was rated by the IFLR 1000 guide as a leading technology lawyer. He graduated from India¹s premier law school, the National law school of India University, Bangalore. He has a BCL (as a Shell Centenary scholar) with distinction at the University of Oxford where he is currently completing his DPhil as a Wellcome Trust scholar.