[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 84 (Tuesday, May 1, 2018)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-09363]



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Vol. 83

Tuesday,

No. 84

May 1, 2018

Part III





The President





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Proclamation 9729--World Intellectual Property Day, 2018
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                Proclamation 9729 of April 26, 2018

                
 World Intellectual Property Day, 2018

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On World Intellectual Property Day, we not only 
                celebrate invention and innovation, but also we 
                recognize how integral intellectual property rights are 
                to our Nation's economic competitiveness. Intellectual 
                property rights support the arts, sciences, and 
                technology. They also create the framework for a 
                competitive market that leads to higher wages and more 
                jobs for everyone. The United States is committed to 
                protecting the intellectual property rights of our 
                companies and ensuring a level playing field in the 
                world economy for our Nation's creators, inventors, and 
                entrepreneurs.

                Our country will no longer turn a blind eye to the 
                theft of American jobs, wealth, and intellectual 
                property through the unfair and unscrupulous economic 
                practices of some foreign actors. These practices are 
                harmful not only to our Nation's businesses and workers 
                but to our national security as well. Intellectual 
                property theft is estimated to cost our economy as much 
                as $600 billion a year. To protect our economic and 
                national security, I have directed Federal agencies to 
                aggressively respond to the theft of American 
                intellectual property. In combatting this intellectual 
                property theft, and in enforcing fair and reciprocal 
                trade policy, we will protect American jobs and promote 
                global innovation.

                While we continue to demand the protection of 
                intellectual property rights abroad, my Administration 
                will also take steps to strengthen our patent system 
                here at home. A system that increases the reliability 
                and enforceability of patents will encourage even more 
                investment in creative and innovative industries, 
                leading to job and wealth creation for all Americans. 
                When the United States advances pro-growth policies of 
                this form, we set an example of protecting economic 
                competitiveness, promoting new engines of growth, and 
                prioritizing the expansion of innovative and creative 
                capacities overall.

                This year's World Intellectual Property Day is 
                dedicated to celebrating all of the industrious and 
                brilliant women who have changed, and who continue to 
                change, the world with their inventions, innovations, 
                and other creative contributions to society. Our 
                Nation's economic strength and prosperity would not be 
                so without the over 75 million women in our country's 
                workforce, whose ingenuity, initiative, and hard work 
                have helped foster the growth and progress of America's 
                economy since our formation. Over the past decade, the 
                number of women-owned firms has grown five times faster 
                than the national average for all firms. American women 
                are assuming leading roles in health, business and 
                finance, the arts, and the STEM fields. We must protect 
                the intellectual property rights of these women 
                creators, inventors, and entrepreneurs in order to 
                promote further innovation for years to come.

                A new era of American exceptionalism is dawning, in the 
                form of sustained intellectual property rights and 
                continued American entrepreneurship. The drive for 
                excellence, advancement, and innovation in the United 
                States has brought forth significant discoveries, 
                developed life-saving research, and improved the 
                quality of life for millions of Americans. On this 
                World Intellectual Property Day, we celebrate the 
                creative spirit and contributions of

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                American men and women, and we acknowledge the 
                necessity of maintaining intellectual property rights 
                for all those enterprising individuals who dare to 
                invent or create something new for the betterment of 
                all people.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim April 26, 2018, as 
                World Intellectual Property Day. I encourage Americans 
                to observe this day with events and educational 
                programs that celebrate the benefits of intellectual 
                property to our economy and our country.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                second.
                
                
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[FR Doc. 2018-09363
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