[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 85 (Thursday, May 2, 2019)]
[Presidential Documents]
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[FR Doc No: 2019-09105]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 85 / Thursday, May 2, 2019 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 9865 of April 25, 2019
World Intellectual Property Day, 2019
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On World Intellectual Property Day, we celebrate the
essential role of innovation in the strength and
expansion of our economy. Our free market continues to
unleash the imagination of our Nation's talented
creators, inventors, and entrepreneurs, enabling them
to develop products that improve and elevate lives
across our country and around the world. To maintain
and reinforce our economic competitiveness, we must
protect intellectual property and related technologies
so that new industries and innovations can flourish.
Since the founding, our Nation's incredible
intellectual property system has empowered Americans to
make discoveries that have helped us live healthy,
prosperous, and enjoyable lives. My Administration is
determined to build on our country's strong tradition
of protecting intellectual property. Last year, I
signed the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music
Modernization Act, which will improve our protection of
the creative genius of America's extraordinary
musicians. This groundbreaking legislation modernizes
our outdated copyright laws so that artists and
songwriters are justly compensated for the online use
of their music. Additionally, my Administration
negotiated the new United States-Mexico-Canada
Agreement (USMCA), modernizing the North American Free
Trade Agreement into a 21st century, high-standard
agreement. The USMCA includes the strongest and most
comprehensive intellectual property standards of any
prior free trade agreement. Once approved by the
Congress, the USMCA will deliver comprehensive
protections against misappropriation of trade secrets,
robust border enforcement, and enhanced trademark,
copyright, and patent provisions that are critical to
driving innovation, creating economic growth, and
supporting American jobs. Earlier this month, I also
issued a memorandum directing my Cabinet to combat
trafficking in counterfeit and pirated goods in online
marketplaces.
We must stop those actors who engage in unfair and
unscrupulous practices, including nation states that
sponsor the theft of American intellectual property. To
protect our economic and national security, my
Administration is taking aggressive action to enforce
both our laws and a fair and reciprocal trade policy.
For example, a critical part of our ongoing
negotiations with China includes putting an end to the
hundreds of billions of dollars of intellectual
property we lose to China each year. Protecting the
innovations, creations, and inventions that power our
country are vital to our economic prosperity and
national security.
The theme of this year's World Intellectual Property
Day is intellectual property in sports. Intellectual
property is critical to advancing the ability of our
athletes to compete and increasing the enjoyment of
sports for fans. We celebrate the innovations of those
working behind the scenes to create new sports
equipment, enhance safety, improve branding, and
broadcast sporting events. From new materials that
preserve athlete health and promote performance to
game-changing technological advances in robotics and
artificial intelligence, intellectual property
underpins the sports industry.
Today, we recognize that the success of nearly every
industry, from entertainment and sports to agriculture
and technology, depends on a framework that protects
intellectual property. A brighter and more hopeful
future is
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dawning because of the increased attention nations are
paying to innovation, creativity, and intellectual
property. As the human mind continues to transcend
limitations, we will work to empower the creative
spirit of today's innovators by protecting their hard
work.
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, 2019, 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-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
third.
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