Associate Dean Daryl Lim lectures on transnational IP enforcement

CARLISLE, PA—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim will participate in a panel discussion at the University of Bremen on patent and trade secret enforcement in the United States as part of a comparative discussion of enforcement practice in Europe, China, and the United States.

Lim’s remarks will focus on key features of U.S. patent and trade secret litigation and will help students compare how different legal systems protect innovation, confidential business information, and intellectual property rights. The presentation connects directly to his teaching and scholarship in intellectual property, innovation law, and emerging technology governance, while also advancing Penn State Dickinson Law’s engagement with international legal education and transnational professional networks.

The session, “Patent and Trade Secret Enforcement in Europe, China, and the US,” is part of GO3360, the University of Bremen’s Summer Semester 2026 Transnational Law Course. The broader course includes sessions on IP enforcement, alternative dispute resolution, intellectual property and competition law, SEP/FRAND issues, compulsory licenses, employee invention law, technology transfer, IP and artificial intelligence (AI), valuation of intellectual property rights, industry-university cooperation, and licensing. Other speakers include Professor Dr. Heinz Goddar (Boehmert & Boehmert) and Klaus Bacher, presiding judge of the Patent Senate of the German Federal Supreme Court.

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.