– Inventions, Minor Inventions and Industrial Designs Proclamation No. 123/1995, in force since May 10, 1995.
– Inventions, Minor Inventions and Industrial Designs Regulations, in force since December 10, 1996.

– Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), since February 19, 1998.

Definition: a utility model is a minor invention that possesses novelty and industrial applicability. 

Novelty: not published, made available to the public or publicly used in Ethiopia.

Filing requirements for an application (to be sent to a registered resident agent):
1. Legalized power of attorney;
2. Naming of the inventor(s);
3. Description of the utility model (3 copies), in English or Amharic;
4. Claims;
5. Drawings;
6. An abstract.

Examination: only formal.

Duration – extension: five years, renewable for further five years provided that proof of work is furnished.

All provisions of the Patent Law apply mutatis mutandis to utility models (see above section on “patents“).