I received the following message from Getachew Mengistie, Director of the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO) shortly after I published this interview with the government’s officials: Dear Wondwossen, Thank you very much for sending me the script.* I have found that some of the answers are incomplete or wrong. This may be due to poor communication.** I would thus like to give clarifications below and kindly ask you to make the necessary corrections in the blog. I really appreciate the excellent work that you have been doing in promoting the initiative. With warmest regards I think the remarks are too snappish for the clarifications offered because, in my view, the clarifications did not have substantial impacts on the contents. For the sake of clarity I have reposted the questioned Q & A’s followed by the clarification and my comments. * Since this blog is blocked in Ethiopia, as are many others, I had to include a copy of the transcript/posting in the body of my email t...