Associate Dean Daryl Lim speaks on global data licensing risks at BIP Asia Forum 2025

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim delivered invited remarks at the 2025 Business of IP Asia (BIP Asia) Forum in Hong Kong, one of the region’s premier convenings on intellectual property (IP), innovation, and technology. He spoke at a session titled “Opportunities and Risks of Data Licensing,” offering U.S. and comparative perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI), copyright, and data governance.

Lim discussed the rapidly evolving legal landscape surrounding data licensing for AI training, highlighting how diverging global court decisions, derivative data questions, and emerging national standards complicate compliance for companies operating across jurisdictions. The session outlined the technical and contractual uncertainties shaping global data licensing practices.

Co-organized by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, BIP Asia is guided by an Honorary Advisory group that includes leaders such as World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Daren Tang, International Trademark Association CEO Etienne Sanz de Acedo, Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI) President Lorenza Ferrari Hofer, China Trademark Association President Ma Fu, and senior officials from national IP offices and regional bodies, including the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group. The 2025 Forum Steering Committee brings together senior representatives from Hong Kong’s universities, innovation agencies, professional associations, and industry. Lim’s role on the “Opportunities and Risks of Data Licensing” panel situates Penn State Dickinson Law within these high-level global conversations on IP, AI, and innovation.

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.