Pratyush Nath Upreti

Pratyush Nath Upreti is a lawyer admitted to the Nepal Bar Council. He is finalizing Doctoral Research on the intersection between intellectual property and international investment law under the c0-supervision of Professors Michel Vivant and Séverine Dusollier. Since 2018, he is also a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) fellow at Stanford Law School (USA). Previously, he was a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, Germany, and the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management(CIPPM) of Bournemouth University in the UK. He was also part of the Harvard Law School, Institute of Global Law & Policy Workshop in 2019. He has represented international organizations at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and advised the government of Nepal on intellectual property issues.

He has taught intellectual property, international trade law, public international law, among others, at the Europe-North America, the Europe-Asia Campus of Sciences Po, and the Summer School program of Sciences Po. He has also given lectures at the Krakow Intellectual Property Summer School and the Central European University. He has supervised Master students on Sciences Po Law School Clinical project 'Assessing the economic and social rights impacts of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)'s first investments in urban development'. His work has been featured/is forthcoming in international peer-reviewed journals and books. He serves as a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Global Trade and Customs Journal, Kluwer Law International, and invited to speak in several international conferences.

He holds a BSc.LLB (Hons) from KIIT University India, an LLM from Maastricht University, Netherlands, as a UM High Potential Scholar. His interests include intellectual property law, international investment law and WTO related issues.

IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2022 winner.

• Pratyush Nath Upreti. When intellectual property meets investor-state dispute settlement : intersections and relationships. Law. Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Sciences Po, 2020. English. ⟨NNT : 2020IEPP0034⟩. ⟨tel-03772397⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. A welcome contribution to the study of pharmaceutical patent law and policy. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2020, 15 (10), pp.847-848. ⟨10.1093/jiplp/jpaa112⟩. ⟨hal-04081014⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. Trade Mark Restrictions under the TRIPS Agreement: The WTO Panel Findings on Australia’s Tobacco Plain Packaging Legislation. Journal of World Trade, 2020, 54 (Issue 2), pp.239-264. ⟨10.54648/trad2020011⟩. ⟨hal-04080743⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti, María Vásquez Callo-Müller. Phase One US-China Trade Deal: What Does It Mean for Intellectual Property?. GRUR International, 2020, 69 (4), pp.389-393. ⟨10.1093/grurint/ikaa033⟩. ⟨hal-04080739⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. ‘Intellectual Property, Investment and WTO: A Historical Account. Christophe Geiger. Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.182-206, 2020, 9781788977814. ⟨hal-04080815⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti, Surya Subedi. Nepal. Simon Chesterman; Hisashi Owada; Ben Saul. The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific, 2019, 9780198793854. ⟨hal-04080830⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. The Belt and Road Initiative at the Crossroads. Global Trade and Customs Journal, 2019, 14 (Issue 5), pp.200-202. ⟨10.54648/gtcj2019018⟩. ⟨hal-04080860⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti, Tejeshwi Nath Bhattarai. Navigating the Currents of Belt and Road Initiative: Perspectives on Least Developed Countries. Global Trade and Customs Journal, 2019, 14 (Issue 5), pp.259-266. ⟨10.54648/gtcj2019026⟩. ⟨hal-04080747⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. Trumping local marks: A note on well-known trade marks in Nepal. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2019, 14 (2), pp.144-155. ⟨10.1093/jiplp/jpy156⟩. ⟨hal-04080750⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. Copyright and Fan Productivity in China: A Cross-Jurisdictional Perspective. European Intellectual Property Review, 2019, 41 (2), pp.127-129. ⟨hal-04080986⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. Geographical Indications in Nepal: In Search of Identity. Is Intellectual Property Pluralism Functional?, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.235-265, 2019, ⟨10.4337/9781788977999.00017⟩. ⟨hal-04080836⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. From TPP to CPTPP: why intellectual property matters. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2018, 13 (2), pp.100-101. ⟨10.1093/jiplp/jpx216⟩. ⟨hal-04080753⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. Eli Lilly v Government of Canada: the tale of promise v expectation. International Arbitration Law Review, 2018, 21 (3), pp.84-89. ⟨hal-04080788⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. IP Licence as an Investment: Insights from Bridgestone v. Panama. Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review , 2018, 1 (1), pp.16. ⟨hal-04080775⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. Philip Morris v Uruguay: a breathing space for domestic IP Regulation. European Intellectual Property Review, 2018, 40 (4), pp.277-284. ⟨hal-04080764⟩
• Pratyush Nath Upreti. Nepal’s first national IP policy, 2017: never too late. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2017, 12 (7), pp.550-552. ⟨10.1093/jiplp/jpx093⟩. ⟨hal-04080801⟩