Associate Dean Daryl Lim facilitates WIPO e-commerce dialogue

CARLISLE—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim served as facilitator for the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Dialogue on IP Protection in E-Commerce, held at WIPO Headquarters in Geneva on June 1, 2026. The dialogue convened leading global e-commerce platforms to discuss practical approaches to protecting intellectual property online.

In this role, Lim helped frame and guide a high-level discussion on the evolving challenges of IP enforcement in e-commerce. His participation reflects his scholarship, teaching, and service at the intersection of intellectual property, technology, platform governance, and global innovation policy.

The World Intellectual Property Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for intellectual property.

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.