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 of 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 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 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 Reuters, BBC News, Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, the National Law Review, the Capitol Forum, Slate, The Hill, The Daily Journal, RealClearPolicy, USA Today, and Sueddeutsche Dossier featured his views on current legal developments.

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, Oxford Intersections: AI and Society (Oxford University Press), and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.

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 globally.


Select Publications by Professor Lim

The Antitrust–Copyright Interface in The Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (with Peter K. Yu), Emory Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2025)

Rights and Regulations, George Mason Law Review (Forthcoming, 2026)

Infringement in Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026)

Inclusive Innovation, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, co-edited with Peter K. Yu, forthcoming 2026)

Daryl Lim

Location: Carlisle

Email dfl5478@psu.edu

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Education
J.S.M, Stanford Law School 

L.L.M., L.L.B. National University of Singapore 

BSc. Econs. & Mgt., University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science)


Research Interests
IP law, antitrust law, artificial intelligence, data security and privacy, the architecture of innovation

Lim’s Affiliations and Service to Community

U.S. IP Alliance

Global IP Alliance
Board of Directors (2022 – present)
Founding Member 

Lim’s Presentations and Panels

United States

The Battle Over Patents: History and Politics of Innovation, Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law (December 8, 2022, Online) (Discussant)

Adaptation, Texas A&M University School of Law IP Scholars Roundtable, November 11, 2022, Fort Worth, Texas) (Speaker)

IP Trends in AI Law — Domestic and International Treatment of Artificial Intelligence, Texas A&M University School of Law, Tarrant County Bar Association Lecture Series, November 10, 2022, Fort Worth, Texas) (Speaker)

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: What Every Lawyer Should Know, Penn State Dickinson Law (October 25, 2022, Online) (Moderator)

Curriculum, Careers, and Commercialization in Schools & Universities, U.S. IP Alliance Annual Meeting, October 20, 2022, Atlanta, Georgia) (Panelist)

IP and Antitrust, 38th Marcus Evans IP Law Summit, September 1820, 2022, Las Vegas, Nevada) (Moderator)

Academia at the Crossroads, Kidon IP War Stories Podcast, July 15, 2022) (Speaker)

Future Policy at the United States Patent and Trademark Office — Transformation or Status Quo, 37th Marcus Evans IP Law Summit, June 27-29, 2022, Chicago, Illinois) (Panelist)

IP and Tech: Is Past Prologue?, 37th Marcus Evans IP Law Summit, June 2729, 2022, Chicago, Illinois) (Speaker) 
 
Europe

38th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Bar — EPO Liaison Council, (November 7, 2022, Online) (Delegate)

Asia

Going on Record with Copyright and Trade Secrets, Global Forum on IP, (September 67, 2022, Singapore) (Moderator)

Semiconductor M&A and IP Protection under the Epidemic, 2022 Jiwei Semiconductor Summit (July 1516, 2022, Xiamen, China) (Speaker) 
 


The American Bar Association has granted conditional approval for Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law to reunify and operate as Penn State University’s single law school under the name Penn State Dickinson Law with locations in Carlisle and University Park. Danielle M. Conway is the dean of the unified Penn State Dickinson Law, which will enroll a unified class in fall 2025.