World Intellectual Property Day, 2021
| Published date | 28 April 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 22339 |
| Record Number | 2021-09001 |
| Section | Presidential Documents |
| Court | Executive Office Of The President |
Federal Register, Volume 86 Issue 80 (Wednesday, April 28, 2021)
[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 80 (Wednesday, April 28, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 22339-22340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-09001] Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 80 / Wednesday, April 28, 2021 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10187 of April 23, 2021
World Intellectual Property Day, 2021
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
This year, on World Intellectual Property Day, we
celebrate the innovators and creators who enrich our
lives and create the products, services, companies, and
industries of tomorrow. We especially recognize the
power of intellectual property protection in allowing
our small businesses to compete, thrive, and play their
important role as the heart and soul of our communities
and the engines of our economic progress.
Small businesses are critical to our success as a
Nation. They make up 90 percent of businesses in the
United States, employ nearly half of America's private
sector workers, and create two-thirds of new jobs, and
bring opportunity to every corner of our Nation.
Inventions born in the garages of small towns can have
just as much impact as those developed in high-tech
labs. This year's World Intellectual Property Day
highlights the critical role these small businesses
play in our society and the ways intellectual property
can help support their continued growth and resilience.
Every small business starts with one person's or one
family's dream. When that dream is coupled with grit
and determination, ideas turn into products, brands,
and creative works. Pair those ideas with the strength
of our intellectual property system and you have the
foundation necessary for new business opportunities,
increased employment, and greater economic prosperity.
The various types of intellectual property--trademarks,
copyrights, patents, and trade secrets--help to ensure
that small businesses will be compensated for, and be
able to prosper from their creations and their customer
service. Without these protections, a small business's
success could easily prove to be its undoing, as
unscrupulous competitors could seek to copy, steal, and
unduly profit from the small business's ideas and its
hard-earned customer goodwill.
We must also recognize the important role science and
technology play in safeguarding our intellectual
property. Investing in and strengthening our digital
infrastructure promotes innovation that helps small
businesses and protects the rights of our citizens.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of
the Lanham Act, which is this Nation's fundamental
trademark law. Trademark protection enables small
businesses to benefit from the investments that they
make to establish brand awareness and brand loyalty. In
addition, trademarks help to protect consumers from
counterfeits and other deceitful practices that defraud
them and endanger their health and safety.
When the pandemic hit, singers, songwriters, and
artists from all across America used their talents to
lift us up, and to inspire us to support one another in
these difficult times. Copyright protection rewards
them for their creativity and allows them to continue
to create.
We are proud to be a Nation of inventors and my
Administration is committed to bolstering American
industrial and innovative strength so we can continue
to lead in making the cutting-edge products and
services of tomorrow. My Administration is also
committed to giving everyone, no matter where they
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are from, a chance to succeed and to contribute to
creating the strongest, most resilient, innovative
economy in the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., 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,
2021, as World Intellectual Property Day. I call upon
all Americans to observe this day by supporting their
neighborhood small businesses and celebrating the
creativity, hard work, and passion that lies behind
each one of them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
fifth.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 2021-09001
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