ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM PARTICIPATES IN DUBAI GLOBAL IP, AI & TECH EVENT, RECEIVES “IP PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR” AWARD
January 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim received the Intellectual Property Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The awards, conferred by a jury panel, “celebrate change makers and drivers of excellence in IP.” The Honorable Justice Yashwant Varma of the Indian High Court presented Associate Dean Lim with the award. At the event, Associate Dean Lim spoke on a panel focused on ownership and infringement issues in artificial intelligence. He also moderated a panel on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the fashion industry, management consulting, patent and copyright law, and current regional and global initiatives.
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.