ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM’S ARTICLES CITED TO COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE D.C. CIRCUIT AND U.S. SUPREME COURT
January 2025 — The Bar Association of the District of Columbia cited Associate Dean Daryl Lim’s article on judicial dissents in its amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a matter involving the suspension and removal of federal judges (Hon. Pauline Newman v. Hon. Kimberly A. Moore, et al., No. 24-5173 (D.C. Cir. Dec. 12, 2024)). The article, I Dissent: The Federal Circuit’s “Great Dissenter,” Her Influence on the Patent Dialogue, and Why It Matters, was published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law.
Four other recent briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court cited Associate Dean Lim’s scholarship. Petitioners in Miller Mendel, Inc. v. City of Anna, Texas, cited I Dissent on related issues. Petitioners in Realtime Data, LLC v. Fortinet, Inc., et al. cited The Influence of Alice (Minnesota Law Review Headnotes) on the issue of patent eligibility. Petitioners in Relish Labs LLC, et al. v. Grubhub Inc., et al. cited his article, Trademark Confusion Revealed: An Empirical Analysis, which the American University Law Review published and which the International Trademark Association’s Trademark Reporter selected for its recent special AI issue. First Amendment and intellectual property law scholars also cited Trademark Confusion Revealed in their amicus brief in the Supreme Court’s Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC case.
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 U.S. 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.