Associate Dean Daryl Lim co-organizes global AI dispute resolution exchange

CARLISLE, PA—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim co-organized and moderated sessions at the 2026 International Tech & IP Disputes Exchange (I-TIDE), a major global convening on artificial intelligence (AI) and cross-border technology disputes. The hybrid seminars were held in New York and San Francisco and drew participants from more than 70 countries.

The initiative reflects Lim’s scholarship and institutional leadership at Penn State Dickinson Law in AI governance, intellectual property, and international dispute resolution. He moderated panels on emerging legal developments relating to AI and participated in high-level roundtables with global practitioners, policymakers, and in-house counsel.

I-TIDE is jointly presented by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Penn State Dickinson Law, and the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center. The program explored issues including AI training data liability, patent inventorship, trade secret protection, and the growing role of arbitration and mediation in resolving complex cross-border technology disputes.

In addition to the public seminars, Lim helped coordinate invitation-only roundtables conducted under the Chatham House Rule at leading law firms in New York and San Francisco, bringing together senior leaders from government, industry, academia, and the arbitration community. Partnership activities also included engagement meetings with law firms, arbitration institutions, technology companies, and universities, reinforcing Penn State Dickinson Law’s global partnerships and thought leadership in technology law.

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Partnerships 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.