Daryl Lim

H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law; Associate Dean for Research and Innovation; Founding Director, Intellectual Property Law and Innovation Initiative; Co-hire, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences and Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Penn State University

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 for Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence. 

He is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on IP and competition policy trends and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps stakeholders understand the world around them. He consults internationally on various IP and antitrust issues. 

He has taught at the National University of Singapore, Fordham University School of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, National Law School of India University, Universidad de los Andes, Peking University School of Transnational Law, and other institutions worldwide.  

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 and on the Executive Committee of the US IP Alliance. In 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. He serves on the Members Consultative Group of the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics.” 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 a consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. 

He is under contract with Oxford University Press for a new book titled Infringement in Intellectual Property Law and is co-editor of Inclusive Innovation, Big Data, And Artificial Intelligence. His publications feature, or are forthcoming, in leading flagship and specialty law reviews, including the Florida Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the Stanford Technology Law Review, and the Berkley Technology Law Journal. Thomson Reuters (West) selected three of his articles as the best IP articles of the year in 2018, 2021, and 2022. 

He has also contributed to practitioner-focused publications for the American Bar Association, Law360, IPWatchdog, IP Watch, and IP Magazine. In addition, legal publications, specialty blogs such as Patently-O, and mainstream media sources such as Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, the Capitol Forum, Slate, The Hill, The Daily Journal, RealClearPolicy, USA Today, and Sueddeutsche Dossier featured his views on current legal developments. In addition, he serves as a peer reviewer for the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Carolina Academic Press, Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. 

Select Publications by Professor Lim

“Infringement in Intellectual Property Law,” Oxford University Press (Forthcoming, 2024)

“Confusion, Simplified,” 37 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 867 (2022)

“AI, Equity, and the IP Gap,” 75 SMU Law Review 815 (2022)

“Saving Substantial Similarity,” 73 Florida Law Review 51 (2021)