World Intellectual Property Day,
2025
Proclamations/April
26, 2025
BY
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
·
Americans
have always been leaders in the realms of technology and ideas.
·
Through
the strategic use of tariffs, we are recentering our
trade policy and securing stronger intellectual property protections in new and
existing trade deals.
· April 26, 2025, as World Intellectual Property Day.
A PROCLAMATION
More
than 200 years ago, our Founding Fathers recognized the profound importance of
intellectual property, enshrining government-granted legal protections in the
Constitution to safeguard American innovation. On World Intellectual Property
Day, we renew our resolve to protect and secure the creative triumphs of
American inventors and artists as they work to pull the future into the present
and turn their dreams into our reality.
Americans have always been leaders in
the realms of technology and ideas
— and under my Administration, we are driving innovation in every sector,
including emerging digital technologies like artificial intelligence. I
recently signed an Executive Order on Removing Barriers to American Leadership
in Artificial Intelligence to slash red tape and ensure our continued
leadership in this and other critical industries like automation, blockchain,
data analytics, and cybersecurity.
For
this reason, I established the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology,
which is bringing together the best and brightest to shape the United States’
innovation policy and ensure our continued technological leadership. My Administration
will not waver in protecting and securing emerging, next-generation
technologies that will drive progress and growth in the 21st century.
My
Administration is taking strong action to protect the promise of American
innovation. For too long, our adversaries and allies alike have sapped our
strength and exploited American advancements. Through
the strategic use of tariffs, we are recentering our trade policy and securing stronger
intellectual property protections in new and existing trade deals. Just
as we protect our physical property, we will not tolerate the theft of our
intellectual property, and we will defend our businesses and people from those
who are seeking to steal American jobs and wealth.
As
President Calvin Coolidge once said in an immortal maxim that remains true to
this day, “The business of America is business.” Our economy is the greatest in
the world because we, more than any other country, incentivize individuals to
dream big, take risks, and make the impossible possible. Through our promotion
and protection of intellectual property, we are empowering musicians, writers,
authors, scientists, and inventors to focus on what they do best.
The
future of our great Nation depends on the continued safeguarding of our
intellectual property, which fuels economic growth, technological progress, and
global competitiveness. This World Intellectual Property Day, we reaffirm our
unwavering commitment to protecting and promoting the innovative spirit that
continues to make America great.
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, 2025, as
World Intellectual Property Day. I encourage Americans to celebrate the
extraordinary achievements of our creators and inventors and the contributions
they have made and will continue making to 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 twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.
DONALD
J. TRUMP