Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal defended India's intellectual property practices during a press conference ...

Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal defended India's intellectual property rights during a press meeting with Swiss ...

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has strongly refuted claims that Indian pharmaceutical companies engage in ...

The concept of evergreening refers to a strategy used by pharmaceutical companies to extend the life of patent protection beyond the term of one or more “original” patents. Companies often ...

India's Commerce Minister refutes claims of Indian pharma firms copying products, highlighting India's respect for ...

In a forceful response to claims that Indian pharmaceutical companies illicitly appropriate ... Indian law rightly bars evergreening—extensions on trivial grounds that would otherwise keep ...

Put simply, evergreening is when a pharma company patents minor modifications on the drug as “new inventions” and then uses the new patents to extend their monopoly, freezing out competition ...

India’s offer comes in the backdrop of the US administration’s stated desire to sharply reduce local drug prices, and gains ...

The government will impose tariffs on pharmaceutical companies if the prices in the ... broader patentability criteria, and evergreening practices. India has been resisting such patent ...