DARYL LIM MODERATES DISCUSSION ON INCLUSIVE INNOVATION AND CUTTING-EDGE IP STRATEGIES
March 2024 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim moderated the discussion on Inclusive Innovation and Cutting-Edge IP Strategies at the Annual Intellectual Property (IP) and Social Justice Seminar featuring Claire W. Desmond (Senior Counsel, IP & Advertising, Under Armour), Idris N. McKelvey (Vice President and Lead Patent Counsel, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.), Ankur Shah (Associate General Counsel for IP, Freddie Mac) and Honorable Paul R. Michel, Former Chief Judge (ret.) (United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit). The IP and Social Justice CLE program provides annual updates in IP law, a panel of sitting federal judges, and discussions of IP, diversity, and social justice concerns. Additional information is available online.
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.