PROFESSOR DARYL LIM PARTICIPATES IN 38TH U.S. BAR-EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO) LIAISON COUNCIL MEETING
November 2022 — Professor Daryl Lim participated as a council member in the 38th U.S. Bar-European Patent Office (EPO) Liaison Council Meeting via hybrid format in Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 7, 2022.
The U.S. Bar-EPO Liaison Council is a forum to facilitate exchange between the EPO and U.S. applicants, who account for a quarter of EPO’s users, the largest number from any single country. The Council represents IP law associations and IP sections of state bar associations from across the country. It increases mutual understanding of European and US patent practice and updates members on recent developments on both sides of the Atlantic.
The agenda covered a wide range of issues. EPO President António Campinos and Council President Iris Mok opened the session. Principal Director (Legal Affairs) Mihály Ficsor chaired the proceedings. EPO officials briefed the Council on the following topics:
- The Unitary Patent
- Timeliness and Quality
- European qualifying examination and quality
- AI patents/oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference
- Legal changes to support digital transformation
- Substantive patent law harmonization.
Additional information is available online.
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and Co-Hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University. He also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and founding director of the IP Law and Innovation Initiative.
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 to make sense of 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. He consults internationally on various IP and antitrust issues.