Poverty-Alleviating IP Solutions
Process in Practice
We work on projects that have the capacity to help poor producers and exporters increase and secure their income.
Light Years IP assists government agencies design projects that have the capacity to increase export income for whole industries and millions of people.
Light Years IP also provides our services to tribal groups such as Ache Guayaki in Uruguay, worker cooperatives such as the Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative in Ghana, Fair Trade companies such as Ten Thousand Villages, and artisan cooperatives to help communities increase and secure long-term economic benefits through IP exports.
Examples from around the world show that producers in poor countries can increase and secure their export income by capturing and controlling the intangible value of their exports.
Since 2000, Light Years IP has successfully demonstrated that developing countries can own and control non-physical values of their products. The ongoing Ethiopia Coffee Trademarking and Licensing Initiative and the Ache Guayaki Yerba Mate Licensing are two examples of how Light Years IP assistance uses IP to increase and secure export income.
We do this by assisting our partners through a 6-step process for creating a Poverty-Alleviating IP Solution: a case-specific business planning and analysis of Intellectual Property aspects that affect the allocation of revenues generated by developing world exports.
IP tools and business analysis can be applied across many economic sectors vital to many developing countries, such as:
- Technical Innovation
- Agricultural Products
- Crafts
- Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
- Creative Arts
- Biological Assets
