India counters US over patents

The government has taken on the United States, defending its intellectual property regime, and has gone to the extent of suggesting that Washington could draw from the Indian experience in checking frivolous patents. Arguing that the Indian IPR regime is fully Trips-compliant, the commerce department has written to the US Trade Representative, saying that the "law encourages genuine innovation by discouraging trivial, frivolous innovation, which leads to evergreening". 

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