ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM SPEAKS ON AI AND PATENT LAW AT THE ANNUAL IP & SOCIAL JUSTICE CLE SEMINAR
February 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim participated in the AI and the Impacts on Patent System Inclusion panel at the Annual Intellectual Property (IP) & Social Justice CLE Seminar, organized by the Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) and hosted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Associate Dean Lim was joined on the panel by Tiffany Johnson, Legal Director, IP (Boston Scientific Corporation), and Ulysses Williams III, Senior Counsel, Patents (Walmart). Idris N. McKelvey, Vice President, Lead Patent Counsel (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.), moderated the discussion. Other distinguished speakers included Judge Leonard Stark and Judge Kara Stoll from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Penn State Dickinson Law’s IP Law and Innovation Initiative and IIPSJ are institutional partners. Associate Dean Lim and IIPSJ’s founding director, Professor Lateef Mtima (Howard University School of Law), serve on each other’s advisory boards.
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.