PROFESSOR DARYL LIM INVITED TO SPEAK AT WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FORUM
January 2024 — The World Intellectual Property (IP) Forum invited Professor Daryl Lim to address the issue of governance in generative artificial intelligence (AI) in Bengaluru, India. Celebrating its 12th edition, the Forum attracted over 800 registrants worldwide. The organizers also requested Professor Lim to present the IP Stalwart and Icon Award to Mr. Scott Frank, Chair and CEO of AT&T Intellectual Property and founder of the Global IP Alliance, as well as the US IP Alliance and various state Alliances. Professor Lim, a founding board member of both the Global and US IP Alliances, also visited the National Law School University in Bengaluru, India’s premier law school. He met with its leadership team and engaged in a fireside chat with approximately 60 students about AI and IP issues. Additionally, he had separate meetings with representatives from Alliance University and Christ University.
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation 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.