Associate Dean Daryl Lim discusses Google antitrust case in The Capitol Forum

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean Daryl Lim was quoted in The Capitol Forum’s Tech Tuesday coverage of Penske Media’s antitrust lawsuit against Google. He highlighted the novel intersection of antitrust and generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the case.

Lim explained how Penske Media’s complaint builds on Judge Amit Mehta’s recent ruling that Google holds an illegal monopoly in general search services. Lim noted that while earlier disputes like Authors Guild v. Google centered on copyright and fair use, Penske’s case adds “an antitrust lens by linking content use to competitive exclusion in AI search, something courts have not fully tested.”

He further observed that grounding the claims in established antitrust precedent strengthens Penske’s foreclosure theory and may signal “a wave of ‘AI-enabled market power’ claims.”

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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.