ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM CO-ORGANIZES INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION SEMINARS
March 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim, together with the World Intellectual Property (IP) Organization (WIPO) and IP Office of Singapore, convened seminars in New York and Chicago that brought together thought leaders from government, practice, civil society, academia, and industry to share their insights on the latest trends in IP and international dispute resolution. The events welcomed close to 900 registrants, including members of the Penn State community. Dean Danielle Conway was present at both events in person and delivered opening remarks. WIPO Director General Daren Tang and Singapore Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, and Second Minister for Law, Edwin Tong SC, delivered keynote remarks.
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance.
In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.