Ethiopia: Intellectual Property Seen Raising Country's Revenues The Daily Monitor (via All Africa) Addis Ababa June 09, 2008 A key report showing how African firms can retain profits said on Friday Ethiopia could set an example on how best to expolit intellectual property to raise export income and alleviate poverty. The report found that effective intellectual property strategies can raise African producers' incomes by up to 320 percent, compared to traditional aid models, which can raise incomes by only about 1.6 percent a year. Light Years IP studied 14 product sectors,and found that some sectors have the potential to increase export income from $1.1 billion per year to between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion per year. Among the products researched were Ethiopian fine coffee Ethiopian leather, Kenyan tea, Sudanese cotton, and Malian mudcloth. The report outlined a number of areas where African countries could receive more of the value from their products. For instance, Ethiop...