Associate Dean Daryl Lim moderates EUIPO IP case law panel

CARLISLE—Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law, associate dean for research and strategic partnerships, and founding director of the IP Law and Innovation Initiative at Penn State Dickinson Law, will moderate a comparative trademark law panel at the 6th IP Case Law Conference, hosted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The session, titled “Iconic Marks Across Borders,” will examine how reputed and famous marks are treated in China, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, and the United States.

The panel brings together senior trademark adjudicators and officials from leading intellectual property offices and tribunals, including China National Intellectual Property Administration, EUIPO, the Japan Patent Office, Korea’s IP Trial and Appeal Board, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Lim’s role as moderator reflects his scholarship and teaching in trademark law and comparative legal analysis and advances Penn State Dickinson Law’s engagement with global IP institutions and transnational legal developments.

Lim’s panel is scheduled for Thursday, May 21, 2026, from 15:45 to 17:00 at the EUIPO Auditorium and on Zoom. You can find more details by clicking here.

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.