Shamnad is a consultant with ALP and head of the Intellectual Property Practice. He is the Ministry of Human Resource Development Chaired Professor in Intellectual Property law at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata.

Prior to this, he was the Frank H Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University law school in Washington DC. He is also the founder of SpicyIP, a blog dedicated to analyzing IP and innovation policy news and cases from India. The blog has been rated by Lexis Nexis as one of the leading IP blogs in the world.

Professor Basheer graduated from India’s premier law school, 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 Technology and Media law division. India. Whilst in practice, the IFLR 1000 guide rated him as a leading technology lawyer.

Professor Basheer went on to do 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. Whilst at Oxford, he was the editor of the Oxford Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) and a founding member of EDIP (Electronic Database of Intellectual Property). He continues to be affiliated to the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center (OIPRC), as a research associate.

In the past, he has been 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 has spoken at various international symposia on intellectual property issues and has also written extensively on IP themes in internationally reputed journals. Recently, his paper on the Novartis patent case won the best prize in a competition held by ATRIP, an international association of IP scholars. He has also consulted on a wide variety of IP issues, particularly involving the pharmaceutical sector with law firms, civil society and governments.