The United States claims that 36 of its trading partners, including China, Canada and Russia, are "inadequately protecting its intellectual property rights" and will push more countries to unite and retaliate with trade protectionism, economists said on Sunday.
The United States dominates the list, with 20 of the companies. Google Inc's parent company Alphabet Inc, together with Facebook, took the first two positions.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on Wednesday involving former Amazon warehouse workers fighting over unpaid security searches which could have implications for similar cases in the future.
The US leader confirmed he would send a senior US delegation, including his family, to PyeongChang during the Winter Olympic period.
The United Sates last year contributed the highest number of PCT filings at 56,142, followed by China at 53,345 and Japan at 49,702. For the first time filers in Asia contributed more than half (50.5 percent) of all international patent applications, then Europe (24.5 percent) and North America (23.1 percent).
The US military is also rethinking its traditional connection to Confederate Army symbols, mindful of their divisiveness at a time the nation is wrestling with questions of racial inequality.
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The US has been building fences around the Venezuelan government since the US administration moved on Aug 5 to impose sanctions on the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, which the US opposes. The sanctions aim to cover Venezuelan ships moving through the Panama Canal.
The UK's trade volume with China is no longer counted as part of the European Union's total as the former left the alliance at the end of January this year, according to China's Ministry of Commerce.
The United States said on Monday it will no longer waive sanctions stemming from operations at Iran's Fordow nuclear plant after Teheran resumed uranium enrichment at the underground site.
The US has not taken a side so far. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauertsaid on July 18 that the US is concerned about the ongoing situation there, saying both sides should work together to try to come up with some better sort of arrangement for peace.