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	== Death ==		== Death ==
	Basheer was found dead in his car in [[Chickmagalur]] on 8 August 2019, after having been incommunicado since 5 August 2019, three days after relatives reported him missing.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=https://barandbench.com/idia-founder-professor-shamnad-basheer-is-no-more/ \|title=IDIA Founder and Professor Shamnad Basheer is no more \|date=8 August 2019 \|access-date=8 August 2019 \|publisher=Bar and Bench}}</ref> He is suspected to have died of suffocation. <ref>{{cite news \|last1=Correspondent \|first1=Special \|title=Legal expert Shamnad Basheer found dead \|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/legal-expert-shamnad-basheer-found-dead/article28918277.ece \|accessdate=11 September 2020 \|agency=The HIndu \|date=9 August 2019}}</ref>		Basheer was found dead in his car in [[Chickmagalur]] on 8 August 2019, after having been incommunicado since 5 August 2019, three days after relatives reported him missing.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=https://barandbench.com/idia-founder-professor-shamnad-basheer-is-no-more/ \|title=IDIA Founder and Professor Shamnad Basheer is no more \|date=8 August 2019 \|access-date=8 August 2019 \|publisher=Bar and Bench}}</ref> He is suspected to have died of suffocation.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Correspondent \|first1=Special \|title=Legal expert Shamnad Basheer found dead \|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/legal-expert-shamnad-basheer-found-dead/article28918277.ece \|accessdate=11 September 2020 \|agency=The HIndu \|date=9 August 2019}}</ref>

	== Scholarships, prizes and awards ==		== Scholarships, prizes and awards ==

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| birth_place = [[Kulathupuzha]], Kollam
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| death_place = [[Chikkamagaluru]]
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| occupation = Legal scholar, activist
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| organization = Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access
| known_for = Intellectual property rights
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| parents = Adv. Basheer MM and Late. Seenath Beevi
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'''Shamnad Basheer''' (14 May 1976 – c. 8 August 2019) was an [[India]]n [[legal scholar]] and founder of the blog ''SpicyIP''. He was also the founder of [[Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access|IDIA]], a trust which works on making legal education accessible for underprivileged students.<ref name="infosysprize">{{Cite web |url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2014/shamnad-basheer.asp |title=Shamnad Basheer |publisher=Infosys Science Foundation |access-date=30 July 2015}}</ref> Basheer was a [[Ministry of Human Resource Development]] Chaired Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the [[West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences|WBNUJS]], Kolkata, and the Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the [[George Washington University]] Law School,<ref name=infosysprize /> and a research associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center (OIPRC). He founded several initiatives such as SpicyIP, IDIA, P-PIL and Lex Biosis. Basheer intervened in the landmark [[Novartis v. Union of India & Others|Novartis case]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.legallyindia.com/201211203253/Law-schools/nujs-ip-chair-prof-shamnad-basheer-intervenes-in-epic-sc-novartis-case-first-time-in-60-years |title=NUJS IP chair prof Shamnad Basheer intervenes in ‘epic’ SC Novartis case, ‘first time in 60 years’ |access-date=30 July 2015 |publisher=Legally India}}</ref> filed a number of other public interest litigations and took initiative to bring about changes in the IPR regime in India.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vishwanath |first=Apurva |url=http://www.livemint.com/Politics/Nv3dpx5kMlfXMFhsHvIVuK/Trademarks-Act-apex-court-dismisses-govt-appeal.html |title=Trademarks Act: apex court dismisses govt appeal |date=28 July 2015 |access-date=30 July 2015 |publisher=LiveMint}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://barandbench.com/refusal-patent-office-provide-information-under-rti-salman/ |title=Refusal by Patent Office to provide information under RTI; Salman Khurshid, Joy Basu in Shamnad Basheer's PIL in Delhi HC |date=30 July 2014 |access-date=30 July 2015 |publisher=Bar and Bench}}</ref>

== 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 [[National Law School of India University]], [[Bengaluru]] on Intellectual Property: Open Access and Unleashing the Commons<ref>http://www.consilience-nls.com/</ref>

== Death ==
Basheer was found dead in his car in [[Chickmagalur]] on 8 August 2019, after having been incommunicado since 5 August 2019, three days after relatives reported him missing.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://barandbench.com/idia-founder-professor-shamnad-basheer-is-no-more/ |title=IDIA Founder and Professor Shamnad Basheer is no more |date=8 August 2019 |access-date=8 August 2019 |publisher=Bar and Bench}}</ref> He is suspected to have died of suffocation. <ref>{{cite news |last1=Correspondent |first1=Special |title=Legal expert Shamnad Basheer found dead |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/legal-expert-shamnad-basheer-found-dead/article28918277.ece |accessdate=11 September 2020 |agency=The HIndu |date=9 August 2019}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Life-Style/2016-09-04/Society-of-Indian-Law-Firms-and-Menon-Institute-of-Legal-Advocacy-Training-honour-Arun-Jaitley-Minister-of-Finance-and-Corporate-Affairs-with-the-Justice-A-B-Rohtagi-Jurist-Award/252190 |title=Society of Indian Law Firms and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training honour Arun Jaitley}}</ref>
*[[Infosys Science Foundation]] Award, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2014/shamnad-basheer.asp |title=Infosys Prize - Laureates 2014 - Shamnad Basheer |website=www.infosys-science-foundation.com |access-date=Aug 12, 2019}}</ref>
*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==
* {{Cite book |last=Basheer |first=Shamnad |title=The Invention of an Investment Incentive for Pharmaceutical Innovation |date=2013 |publisher=University of Oxford}}
* {{Cite book |title=Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191642890 |editor-last=Basheer |editor-first=Shamnad |editor-last2=Wilkof |editor-first2=Neil}}

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