Associate Dean Daryl Lim speaks on cross-border innovation at IP Week Singapore

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean Daryl Lim participated as a plenary speaker at IP Week @ SG 2025 in Singapore, addressing how businesses and policymakers can navigate the complexities of cross-border innovation. His talk highlighted the legal, economic, and policy challenges of protecting and monetizing innovation in a rapidly integrating global market.

In his remarks, Associate Dean Lim explained how regulatory fragmentation in intellectual property, data, and dispute resolution reshapes innovation strategies worldwide. Drawing on his scholarship in artificial intelligence (AI), intellectual property (IP), and global regulation, he emphasized the need to treat data as a licensable asset class, to anticipate divergence in exhaustion and standard-essential patents (SEP) enforcement regimes, and to adopt modular licensing solutions that safeguard provenance and compliance.

IP Week @ SG is Asia’s premier intellectual property and innovation conference, organized by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). It brings together global leaders from industry, government, and academia to shape the future of IP and innovation. 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.