Associate Dean Daryl Lim moderates global AI and IP panel in Singapore

CARLISLE, PA—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim moderated a plenary session at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property (GFIP) during Singapore IP Week 2026 on August 27. The session, “Litigate, Regulate or Co-Create? Building a New Paradigm for IP in the Age of AI,” brought together senior leaders from technology, industry, the creative sector, and international intellectual property (IP) organizations to consider how IP law should respond to artificial intelligence.

Lim structured and led the discussion around four major questions confronting policymakers and businesses: the appropriate balance among courts, regulation, markets, and collaborative governance; the legal framework for AI training, licensing, and safeguards; how law should identify meaningful human contribution to AI-assisted creation; and the implications of AI-assisted invention for inventorship, prior art, and the patent system. The discussion was especially timely because Singapore had announced a new public consultation on AI, copyright, and patents immediately before the panel.

The session reflects Lim’s teaching and scholarship on artificial intelligence, intellectual property, innovation policy, and the institutional design of legal frameworks for emerging technologies. The Global Forum on Intellectual Property is a two-day multidisciplinary forum within Singapore IP Week that brings together business leaders, policymakers, heads of intellectual property offices, lawyers, and academics from Singapore, the Asia-Pacific region, and around the world. Singapore IP Week 2026, themed “The Rise of AI: Is It IP as usual?”, was opened by Singapore Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs Edwin Tong, SC, and Minister for Trade and Industry (Energy and Industry) Dr. Tan See Leng. World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Daren Tang delivered the keynote address.

Other prominent participants in the 2026 program included Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet; Dr. Shen Changyu, commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration; Jung Yeonwoo, vice minister of the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Intellectual Property; and senior representatives from Microsoft, Tencent, General Atlantic, NatWest Group, WIPO, and other leading international organizations and companies.

Lim’s panel included Mark Gray, senior counsel at OpenAI; Anita Huss-Ekerhult, CEO and secretary general of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations; Dr. Stanley Lai, SC, head of intellectual property at Allen & Gledhill; Jing He, partner at Gen Law Firm; and Dr. Olivia Koentjoro, head of global legal data analytics at Applied Materials and president of the Licensing Executives Society Singapore.

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.