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Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships at Penn State Dickinson Law, where he is the Founding Director of the Intellectual Property Law and Innovation Initiative. At Penn State, he is a co-hire at the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, where he serves on the Research Council, and an affiliate of the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

His scholarship examines intellectual property, antitrust and competition law, artificial intelligence, and innovation policy, with particular attention to how law structures innovation, market power, ownership, access, and governance in technology-driven markets. He also advises institutions and stakeholders internationally on intellectual property, competition, and technology policy.

Professor Lim is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served on the Members Consultative Group for the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics.” IAM Strategy 300 named him to its list of the World’s Leading IP Strategists. He has served on a 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. In 2026, Concurrences shortlisted his article with Peter K. Yu, The Antitrust-Copyright Interface in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence, for its Antitrust Writing Awards in the Intellectual Property category.

Professor Lim is also Microsoft Professorial Fellow at the Emily C. and John E. Hansen Intellectual Property Law Institute at Fordham University School of Law, Senior Scholar at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and Academic Fellow at the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.

Professor Lim is the author of the forthcoming Infringement in Intellectual Property Law with Oxford University Press and co-editor, with Peter K. Yu, of Inclusive Innovation, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence. His recent and forthcoming scholarship appears in the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law, Michigan Technology Law Review, SMU Law Review, George Mason Law Review, and Emory Law Journal. His work has also appeared in the Florida Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, American University Law Review, Stanford Technology Law Review, and other leading journals. Thomson Reuters selected three of his articles as among the best intellectual property articles of the year in 2018, 2021, and 2023.

His work bridges scholarship, policy, industry, and institution-building. He has advised the World Intellectual Property Organization on artificial intelligence and intellectual property policy and has worked with government agencies, courts, industry, and professional organizations on issues at the intersection of innovation and regulation. He founded the Practicing Law Institute’s Global IP Spotlight series and the Penn State Dickinson Law Profiles in Leadership series and serves as anchor for both. He is also a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its Pennsylvania and Illinois chapters.

Professor Lim’s commentary has appeared in or been featured by major national and international media, including Reuters, BBC News, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today, and Law360. His practitioner-oriented writing has appeared in publications of the American Bar Association, Law360, Law.com, IPWatchdog, IP Watch, and other professional outlets.

He is frequently asked to evaluate scholarship for leading journals and academic presses, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.

Professor Lim has taught or held academic appointments at institutions including the National University of Singapore, Fordham University School of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, National Law School of India University, Universidad de los Andes, and Peking University School of Transnational Law. Earlier in his career, he served as a Scholar in Residence to Chief Judge Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and to Commissioner William E. Kovacic of the Federal Trade Commission.

CV: August 2026

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Profiles in Leadership | Francis Gurry

Pleased to share this episode of the Penn State Dickinson Law Profiles in Leadership series, featuring Dr. Francis Gurry, former Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO. His career offers an extraordinary perspective on the transformation of intellectual property from a specialized field into a central part of the global innovation economy. His work has spanned scholarship, trade secrets, international diplomacy, institutional leadership, treaty-making, dispute resolution, and global innovation policy. Our conversation ranges from his early years in Australia and Cambridge to the digital revolution, the rise of Asia, and the increasingly complex relationship among technology, law, geopolitics, and international institutions. We discuss the limits of traditional treaty-making, the creation of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, domain names and the UDRP, the Marrakesh Treaty and Accessible Books Consortium, and the importance of building practical mechanisms for international cooperation rather than relying on formal legal instruments alone. He also reflects candidly on becoming Director General during a period of institutional and global upheaval, winning the election by a single vote, leading organizational change, navigating geopolitical pressures, and steering WIPO through the COVID-19 pandemic. We close with a broader question that runs throughout the conversation: how institutions remain relevant when technology, economic power, and political influence are all shifting at once. It was a privilege to explore these questions with someone who has played such a significant role in shaping the modern international intellectual property system. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF2vfFIPNzs Justin Kulp
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Profiles in Leadership | Colin Birss

Pleased to share the latest episode of the Penn State Dickinson Law Profiles in Leadership series, featuring Sir Colin Birss, Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales and incoming Master of the Rolls. His career is unusual in the best sense of the word. It spans science, computer programming, intellectual property practice, judicial innovation, and leadership at the highest levels of the judiciary. Our conversation explores how those different experiences shaped the way he approaches law and judging, from studying metallurgy and materials science at Cambridge to becoming one of the United Kingdom’s leading intellectual property judges. He spoke on the importance of curiosity and adaptability in leadership. We discussed the value of understanding technology rather than being intimidated by it, the role of experimentation and innovation in the courts, the craft of judging and advocacy, and what it means to lead an institution while remaining open to better ways of doing things. He also reflected on the experiences and people that shaped him, the transition from advocate to judge, and the responsibilities that come with judicial leadership. It is an engaging and wide-ranging conversation with someone who has helped shape both intellectual property law and the administration of justice in the United Kingdom. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gjUGtJQZ Justin Kulp HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
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Profiles in Leadership | Michael Aguinaldo

Pleased to sit down with Michael Aguinaldo, Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission for the Penn State Dickinson Law Profiles in Leadership series. His career offers a remarkable window into leadership across institutions: nearly two decades in private practice, senior service in the Office of the President, leadership of the Philippine Commission on Audit, and now the country’s competition authority. Our conversation covers how leaders build public trust by combining institutional independence with judgment, restraint, and a willingness to learn before leading. We discuss his formative years in Manila, legal education in the Philippines and at Michigan, the transition from private practice to public service, the pressures of safeguarding audit independence, and the challenge of building a competition culture in a developing economy. He talks about a $20 write-off, a deceptively simple example of how proportionality and common sense can improve government. We also explore how the Philippine Competition Commission is making competition law meaningful to ordinary citizens, managing political and corruption risks, and strengthening its enforcement capacity toward 2030. He brings unusual clarity, humility, and practical wisdom to questions of institutional leadership. I learned a great deal from our conversation and hope others will as well. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfZXJRFw-XU
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Law360 | “Stakes Are High In Meta Bellwether Social Media Trial”

Pleased to contribute to Bonnie Eslinger’s (Law360) excellent piece on the major bellwether litigation over Meta’s social media platforms and alleged harms to young users. One of the most significant questions in the case is whether traditional consumer protection law can operate as a form of platform governance. If states can successfully challenge product design features as unfair, or public assurances about safety as misleading in light of what a company knew internally, state attorneys general may have a powerful way to scrutinize platform design without waiting for Congress to create a new regulatory regime. The case also highlights an important distinction between proving that social media caused a particular individual’s psychiatric injury and establishing deception or unfair business practices. In the latter context, what a platform knew, what it said publicly, and what it did with that knowledge can take center stage. Article link behind paywall: https://www.law360.com/articles/2512379/stakes-are-high-in-meta-bellwether-social-media-trial.
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BeFM’s Morning Wave in Busan | The San Francisco AI Summit & Korea

It was a pleasure to return to Morning Wave in Busan on BeFM for a conversation about the recent San Francisco AI Summit and what its developments may mean for Korea and the wider global AI landscape. The interview is available here: https://lnkd.in/g2drYPWf Penn State Dickinson Law post here: https://lnkd.in/gMCwWrhW
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US-China Dialogue | Visits, Meetings, & Conferences

Over the past week, I traveled through Xi’an, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing with a delegation of U.S. intellectual property stakeholders. Visits to Alibaba, Tencent, and Insta360 offered valuable perspectives on how leading Chinese companies are approaching innovation, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and global markets. We also visited Dentons and participated in seminars that brought together representatives from government, law firms, industry, and academia for candid discussions of patent litigation, licensing, emerging technologies, and cross-border IP practice. At the Supreme People’s Court, we engaged directly with judges about intellectual property adjudication and developments in our respective legal systems. I was especially pleased to meet Penn State Dickinson Law student Shanell Powell, who is completing an internship with GEN Law, a leading intellectual property law firm in China. Shanell joined us for our visit to Tencent, where she observed a dialogue between our delegation and Tencent’s legal leadership. It was gratifying to see one of our students gaining firsthand exposure to international legal practice and high-level cross-border engagement. In Beijing, I was honored to deliver opening remarks at the 2026 China-U.S. Intellectual Property Cooperation Dialogue at Renmin University of China. The Dialogue provided a forum for experts from both countries to address areas of disagreement, identify shared challenges, and consider opportunities for continued cooperation. The visit also allowed us to deepen ties with several leading law schools, including those at Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Peking University (Beida), and the University of Science and Technology Beijing. I extended invitations to several key stakeholders to continue these conversations with us at the Hansen IP Conference at Fordham. At a time when the broader relationship between the United States and China is increasingly complex, sustained professional and academic engagement matters. Dialogue does not require agreement. It does require listening, candor, and a willingness to keep channels of communication open. My thanks to our hosts, organizers, speakers, and fellow delegates for their generous hospitality and thoughtful exchanges. I look forward to building on these relationships and continuing the dialogue.
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