By morning, it will be spread around the world: to the U.K. and the U.S., to Norway, Kuwait, and Canada. The Ethiopian government, for instance, has battled a Dutch agronomist over a European patent on flour made of the ancient grain. As part of the deal, the company and its director, Jans Roosjen, took out a patent on teff flour. But he still had the teff patent, which he began using to sell its products under other brand names, cutting the Ethiopian government out entirely. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosjen went to Dutch courts to sue another Dutch company, Bakels, for selling its own teff products.

Source: Ethiopian News June 07, 2019 18:33 UTC