TRADEMARK REPORTER SELECTS ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM’S ARTICLE FOR SPECIAL AI ISSUE
December 2024 — The Trademark Reporter (TMR) has selected Associate Dean Daryl Lim’s article on AI and trademarks for inclusion in its special issue on AI. The article was originally published by the American University Law Review in 2022. Founded in 1911, TMR is a premier resource the International Trademark Association (INTA) provides to practitioners, academics, and judges worldwide. U.S. and international courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have cited the TMR. Editor-in-Chief Pamela Chestek summarized the article as follows:
“In ‘Trademark Confusion Revealed: An Empirical Analysis,’ Daryl Lim analyzes courts of appeals’ decisions on the likelihood of trademark confusion and how the various factors are applied by the courts. Lim considers the possibility of using empirical analysis to train AI models that would allow courts to reach more consistent and accurate results and that would, in turn, allow trademark counselors to better predict likely outcomes before ever reaching the courts."
The issue can be accessed online.
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. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.