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Ethiopia's first intellectual property law was enacted in 2006, which included provisions for patents, trademarks, copyrights, and industrial designs. The law aimed to protect the rights of creators and inventors in Ethiopia and promote innovation and creativity in the country.
The Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO) is an autonomous unit of the Ethiopian Science and Technology Agency. It was established in 2003 to provide legal protection for Intellectual property (IP) rights. [1] It is based in Addis Ababa. [2]
African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia (AIPA) IP Australia (IPA) Barbados Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO) Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO)
The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other intellectual property matters. ARIPO was established by the Lusaka Agreement [1] of 1976.
There are several organizations and public offices named Intellectual Property Office or Office for Intellectual Property, including: Barbados Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO) Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO)
In April 1995, the US published "Antitrust Guidelines for the licensing of Intellectual Property" which apply to patents, copyright, and trade secrets. In January 1996, the European Union published Commission Regulation No. 240/96 which applies to patents, copyright, and other intellectual property rights, especially regarding licenses.
In Ethiopia, claims of human rights abuses associated with mass evictions in Gambella prompted neighboring South Sudan — a nation ravaged by a civil war — to grant group refugee status to Anuak who have fled Ethiopia. Otiri and Omot escaped the violence in Gambella in the summer of 2011 by trekking across the Ethiopian border into South Sudan.
The WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook gives two reasons for intellectual property laws: "One is to give statutory expression to the moral and economic rights of creators in their creations and the rights of the public in access to those creations. The second is to promote, as a deliberate act of Government policy, creativity and the ...