Legal Scholar, IP Rights Expert Shamnad Basheer Passes Away

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published Published on Aug 10, 2019   modified Modified on Aug 10, 2019
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Basheer was the founder and managing trustee of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access or IDIA, a body which aims at bringing legal awareness to the underprivileged.

Legal scholar, intellectual property rights activist and public interest litigator Shamnad Basheer passed away on Thursday, in an accident at Chikkamagaluru in Karnataka, reports say. He was 43.

Basheer was the founder and managing trustee of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access or IDIA, a body which aims at bringing legal awareness to the underprivileged.

Basheer also set up one of the most popular intellectual property blogs in the country, SpicyIP.

With countless feathers in his cap, Basheer had been a champion for some of the most underrepresented legal fields in the country.

In 2012, when he was the Ministry of Human Resources and Development’s chair professor for intellectual property, Basheer led a first-of-its-kind academic intervention in the landmark Novartis-Gleevec patent hearing at the Supreme Court.

Swiss drug maker Novartis had approached the Supreme Court after having been turned down a patent for the cancer medicine Gleevec which is sold by generic drug makers in India at a very low price, Legally India had reported then. Novartis was attempting to sell it at a distinct twentyfold markup.

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TheWire.in, 8 August, 2019, https://thewire.in/law/shamnad-basheer-passes-away


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