Topic: International Intellectual Property Protection
Country: Ethiopia
Delegate Name: Alison Sherlock
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Ethiopia position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
Ethiopia firmly believes that all intellectual rights need to be protected. We believe that intellectual property rights need to change in a way to help benefit smaller, poorer, countries in order to ensure that IP right’s don’t exclusively favor powerful countries. Ethiopia is of the opinion that this needs to solved on the international level.
IP is needed for developing countries, such as ourselves. We need to be able to protect the innovations that are made in our country. These innovations can be crucial to developing our industry further and bring much need revenue to the people of our country. We suggest that the Legal committee work to help developing nations spread information and resources to the people of these nations in order to help obtain them patents, trademarks, and similar intellectual protection. Ethiopia has been member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since 1998. We believe that all countries would benefit from joining WIPO, as they have helped and work to improve intellectual property rights for developing nations, but of course there is still work to do.
Through cooperation and diplomacy Ethiopia hopes that this legal counsel will help create more opportunities for those in developing nations. Ethiopia is especially hoping to see an untied African block and wants developing nations to come together to provide a check on the power of the economically prosperous countries.
