On April 26, 2018, President Trump, became the first President to formally recognize World Intellectual Property Day and proclaimed that “[o]n 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.” For this reason, the President stated that
“[o]ur 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.”
Annual Intellectual Property Report to US congress. February 2019
