VERBATIM (indirect responses by the LYIP and the Government to this report and other views) Corrections to Misinformation “Contrary to the concerns being expressed recently, in no country where applications have been made to register a TM, has Ethiopia yet run out of options to rebut or reverse a decision of the prevailing authority or Patent and Trade Mark Office. “We realize that the public who stepped up to support us around the world, may remain concerned about whether Ethiopia has managed to achieve what it hoped for in the negotiations with Starbucks that were concluded on June 20th, 2007. We wish to confirm that it did. Other assertions are untrue and based only on mere speculation. “Furthermore, Ethiopia neither conceded nor altered the fundamental principles and objectives of the Initiative and considers the agreement with Starbucks as not only satisfactory in its own right, but also an important trigger, stimulating many other companies, that had stood back, to now come forwa...