DOHA: The commerce and industry ministry will come out with consultation papers to look at tweaking the Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) laws with an aim to promote innovation, research and development in India, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said.

However, he said that ever-greening of patents will never be allowed.

"I am in talks with both international and domestic companies to see how we can align our IPRs, particularly patents, with international best practices, without at all allowing ever-greening of patents.

"That is a red line. We will not allow that. Apart from that, if some changes promote international companies to do innovation and R&D in India, we will welcome that, Goyal told PTI when asked what kind of amendments the ministry is looking at in the country

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