ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM CONVENES PANEL ON CHINA’S EVOLVING IP LANDSCAPE AT PLI’S GLOBAL IP SPOTLIGHT
November 2024 — Professor Daryl Lim recently convened a panel as part of the Practicing Law Institute’s Global Intellectual Property (IP) Spotlight series, with this episode featuring developments in China. Panelists shared insights on IP trends and challenges in one of the world’s most dynamic IP landscapes. The panel, consisting of Albert Wai-Kit Chan of Kinect Law, Mark Allen Cohen from George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, Hon. Randall R. Rader (Ret.) of The Rader Group PLLC, and Hui Shen of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, explored insights on IP litigation, unfair competition, and opportunities in the Greater Bay Area, providing valuable guidance for navigating IP matters involving Chinese entities.
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.