Associate Dean Daryl Lim to moderate WIPO Experts’ Exchange on AI and patent law

CARLISLE, Pa.—The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has invited Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim to moderate its Experts’ Exchange as part of its Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP)’s Thirty-Seventh Session. The SCP is the principal venue at WIPO where Member States converge to exchange practices and consider the global patent landscape.

The patent system is foundational to innovation, technology transfer, and economic development: patent law affects how inventors, companies, and states create, protect, and diffuse new technologies. The SCP’s work touches on patent quality, exceptions and limitations, and how patents enable or constrain access to technology. Lim will guide a comparative discussion on how patent systems are adapting to artificial intelligence (AI)-driven invention, inventive step, and inventorship, highlighting the interface among human, machine, and legal frameworks.

The SCP is a forum for WIPO Member States to discuss and provide guidance on the international development of patent law. It facilitates coordination, shares information, and addresses issues such as patent quality, technology transfer, and the impact of new technologies like AI on the patent system. It also helps harmonize and improve the global patent system by examining similarities and differences among national patent laws and exchanging best practices.

Penn State Dickinson Law’s representation at the SCP is a significant signal that it is at the frontier of intellectual property law, technology regulation, and global innovation policy. More details may be found 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.