Light Years IP Chief Executive Officer Ron Layton has been invited to give an opening plenary address at the Africa Intellectual Property Forum, April 3-5 in Capetown. This forum is the largest gathering of IP experts in African history, with 600-800 attendees expected.
08/04/2011 - Tanzania is on the move towards becoming Africa’s lead nation in exporting agricultural products through intellectual property (IP) value capture methods of marketing...
The Rt. Hon. Lord Paul Boateng, former U.K. cabinet minister and Ambassador to South Africa, announced today that he is co-chairing the African IP Trust - an important new initiative in Africa that...
04/18 - 4/20/2011 - Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade, Dr. Cyril Chami, personally promised to learn a new business method for increasing export income and committed to a nationwide education and training program...
U.S. NGO Light Years IP has been nominated for the Hilton Humanitarian Prize for work in reducing poverty in rural Ethiopia. The NGO designed a corporate business strategy that has brought over $200 million of extra export income to fine coffee farmers in rural Ethiopia...
In recent years, the demand for gourmet and fine coffee has grown substantially, and new markets have opened up in India and China. Speak to any qualified barista and they will testify as to the qual- ity of Ethiopian coffee and three lead coffees in particular – Yirgacheffe, Sidamo and Harrar...
Ethiopian Fine Coffee: A special promotional documentary on the Trademarking and Licensing Initiative
04/29/2010 - The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, today launched the publication, “IP Value Capture: Caribbean Opportunities for Higher Income,” as an effort to...