This study was commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to examine the Ethiopian Fine Coffee Designations Trade Marking & Licensing
Initiative. It highlights the experience gained and identifies the lessons that may be learned by Ethiopia and countries at similar stages of development. The study contributes to overcoming the prevailing erroneous perception in low-income
developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs) that intellectual property is a matter for the developed world only, contributes to reorienting their development policies.