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House Calendar No. 24 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 210 
[Report No. 109–53] 
Supporting the goals of World Intellectual Property Day, and recognizing 
the importance of intellectual property in the United States and worldwide. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 12, 2005 
Mr. WEXLER (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. FEENEY, 
Mr. SMITH of Washington, and Mrs. BONO) submitted the following reso-
lution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
APRIL 26, 2005 
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals of World Intellectual Property Day, 
and recognizing the importance of intellectual property 
in the United States and worldwide. 
Whereas intellectual property is the backbone of our Nation’s 
economic competitiveness and the only sector where the 
United States has a trade surplus with every nation in 
the world; 
Whereas all nations can use the intellectual property system 
to achieve economic growth and cultural development;
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Whereas intellectual property plays an important role in an 
increasingly broad range of areas, ranging from the 
Internet to health care to nearly all aspects of science 
and technology and literature and the arts, and under-
standing the role of intellectual property in these areas— 
many of them still emerging—often requires significant 
new research and study; 
Whereas World Intellectual Property Day provides an oppor-
tunity to reflect on how intellectual property touches all 
aspects of our lives: how copyright helps bring music to 
our ears and art, films, and literature before our eyes, 
how industrial design helps shape our world, how trade-
marks provide reliable signs of quality, and how pat-
enting helps promote ingenious inventions that make life 
easier, faster, safer—and sometimes completely changes 
our way of living; 
Whereas World Intellectual Property Day is an opportunity 
to encourage young people everywhere to recognize the 
creator, the problem-solver, and the artist within them-
selves, because the classrooms of today will produce the 
entrepreneurs, the scientists, the designers, and the art-
ists of tomorrow; 
Whereas the over-arching objectives for World Intellectual 
Property Day 2005 are to reach out to young people 
about the importance of intellectual property, to increase 
understanding of how protecting intellectual property 
rights helps foster creativity and innovation, and to raise 
awareness of the importance in daily life of patents, copy-
rights, trademarks, and designs; 
Whereas April 26, 1970, was the date on which the Conven-
tion establishing the World Intellectual Property Organi-
zation entered into force;
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Whereas in 2000, member states of the World Intellectual 
Property Organization established World Intellectual 
Property Day to celebrate the contribution made by 
innovators and artists to the development and growth of 
societies across the globe and to highlight the importance 
and practical use of intellectual property in our daily 
lives; and 
Whereas April 26, 2005, has been designated as World Intel-
lectual Property Day as a time to celebrate the impor-
tance of intellectual property to the United States and 
world economy: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the goals of World Intellectual 
Property Day to promote, inform, and teach the im-
portance of intellectual property as a tool for eco-
nomic, social, and cultural development; 
(2) congratulates the World Intellectual Prop-
erty Organization for building awareness of the 
value of intellectual property and developing the nec-
essary infrastructure to help citizens take full advan-
tage of their own creativity; 
(3) applauds the ongoing contributions of 
human creativity and intellectual property to growth 
and innovation and for the key role they play in pro-
moting and ensuring a brighter and stronger future 
for the Nation; and 
(4) recognizes that intellectual property con-
tinues to face serious, new challenges, which affect
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prospects for future growth of the United States 
economy.
House Calendar No. 24 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 210 
[Report No. 109–53] 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals of World Intellectual Property 
Day, and recognizing the importance of intellec-
tual property in the United States and world-
wide. 
APRIL 26, 2005 
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
printed