EAST ASIA’S OLDEST UNIVERSITY HOSTS VIRTUAL LECTURE BY ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM ON AI AND IP
March 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim delivered a virtual lecture to Sungkyunkwan University Law School faculty and students. Sungkyunkwan University was founded as a royal Confucian academy in 1398, at the beginning of the Joseon Dynasty, making it the oldest university in East Asia. Associate Dean spoke about current developments in AI and IP in the United States and South Korea, including the Act on the Development of AI and Establishment of Trust, which South Korea's National Assembly recently enacted, recent U.S. and Korean court decisions on AI authorship and inventorship, and AI infringement.
Associate Dean Lim’s lecture was the first in a series of virtual lectures co-organized by Penn State Dickinson Law and Sungkyunkwan University Law School to deepen ties between the communities at both institutions. Sungkyunkwan Law Professor Patricia Goedde’s lecture to the Penn State Dickinson Law community on Institutional Pathways for Public Interest Lawyering in South Korea will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 7 p.m.
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. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.