DARYL LIM INVITED SPEAKER AT GLOBAL IP ALLIANCE CONFERENCE
May 2024 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim was invited to speak at the inaugural Global IP Alliance (GLIPA) Conference held at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. This event seeks to highlight the need to work collaboratively to strengthen innovation ecosystems around the world for the benefit of people by promoting increased awareness, regional dialogue, and networking on key IP issues. It aims to build a collaborative, long-term, action-oriented agenda with committed stakeholders, notably public and private sector actors, academia, and others, to bring IP to the hands of everyone around the world.
Associate Dean Lim spoke on the “National Strategy on Inclusive Innovation” the US Patent and Trademark Office and US Department of Commerce released this month. He highlighted clear and specific ways stakeholders can help students, women, and aliens assimilate into the innovation ecosystem, contribute to the economy, and help address global challenges.
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.