Dr Bellido completed his undergraduate studies in Law at UAM (Madrid) before obtaining an LLM in Intellectual Property at Queen Mary College, University of London in 2002, graduating with distinction and receiving the Sir Roy Goode Prize. He holds two doctorates: one in legal history from Birkbeck College, University of London (2009, no amendments), and another in legal philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2022, summa cum laude).
His research has been supported by a number of funding bodies, including the European Research Council for a project investigating patents and their role in scientific infrastructure (led by Prof. Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, 2017–2023), and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2025–2026).
His last publications are Adventures in Childhood: Intellectual Property, Imagination and the Business of Play (Cambridge University Press, 2022) [co-authored with Kathy Bowrey] and Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2023) [co-edited with Brad Sherman] and La dimensión jurídica de la vida (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales 2024).
Dr Bellido is the Spanish national editor to Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds Lionel Bently & Martin Kretschmer.
He is also involved in the following funded projects:
Patents as Scientific Information (PASSIM) - European Research Council Advanced Grant project 2017-2023 [led by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Linköping University, Sweden]
Virtual Museum (Intellectual Property) - CIPIL (University of Cambridge) [with Lionel Bently] supported by funding from the Herchel Smith Bequest.
Oral History of Intellectual Property - AHRC- CREATe (University of Glasgow) [with Lionel Bently]
Undergraduate
Dr Bellido is happy to supervise research students in the areas of intellectual property law, breach of confidence and defamation.
Governing Board, ISHTIP- International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property
Member of the Newton Fund - Social Sciences Panel (British Council)
Member of the IBC Network - Multidisciplinary Research on Intellectual Property Rights, Business and Commerce
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (elected)
Member of the Centro de Investigación en Propiedad Intelectual (UAM, Madrid)
Mentor, the Law and Humanities Lab, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
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