DARYL LIM PARTICIPATES IN IP AWARENESS SUMMIT AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
March 2024 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim participated in The IP Awareness Summit at Northwestern University, an annual event that examines the impact of IP awareness on innovation, creative expression, commerce and society and the strategies for improving it. The panel “IP+AI: What Creators and Students Need to Know” covered AI issues affecting K-12 students as well as students in business, engineering, and law. He was joined by Efrat Kasznik (President and Founder, Foresight Valuation Group), Professor Dan Brown (Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering) and Tiffany Norwood (President and Founder, Tribetan). Additional details are 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. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.