He was also the founder of IDIA, a trust which works on making legal education accessible for underprivileged students.

Basheer intervened in the landmark Novartis case,[2] filed a number of other public interest litigations and took initiative to bring about changes in the IPR regime in India.

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.

He was an editor of the Oxford Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) and a founding member of EDIP (Electronic Database of Intellectual Property).

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.