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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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Singapore | IP Week, Singapore Convention Week & More

One week in Singapore brought together an unusually rich intersection of intellectual property, AI, universities, government, courts, dispute resolution, industry, and international business. IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Academic Colloquium: joined scholars from across the region for discussions about IP, trade, technology, and innovation. Irene Calboli Althaf Marsoof Bernard Ong Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) Miranda Risang Ayu Palar, S.H., LL.M., Ph.D. Palar Yangzi Li Huijuan Peng NUS Faculty of Law: “IP in Asia: How Reliable IP Rights Foster Innovation, Economic Growth, and Global Competitiveness” roundtable Sandy Widjaja David Kappos Urška Petrovčič Burton Ong Sipim Wiwatwattana, Brian Prastyo Mary Allison Dellosa @Szu-Yuan Wang Chih-Chieh Yang Phan Ngoc Gia Bao Trang Nguyen Huijuan Peng Toshifumi Futamata Piergiuseppe Pusceddu Becky Fraser Collette Rawnsley Irene Calboli Ruben Duran Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) Singapore Convention Week signature event: Crystal Tan, Daniel Choo （朱灿堃）Eunice Chua Kevin Kwek Mariam (Maka) Gotsiridze Wei-Chieh Soo Wooi Tyng Tan Global Forum on IP: Mark Gray Anita Huss-Ekerhult Olivia Koentjoro Jing He Dr Stanley Lai, SC Nigel King Loo Fang Hui (卢芳晖) Saw Cheng Lim For Penn State, a week like this goes well beyond any individual conference or meeting. International relationships become most valuable when they create opportunities for others: joint research, visiting scholars and speakers, student opportunities, institutional partnerships, comparative teaching, professional programming, and connections with policymakers, courts, industry, and the profession. Singapore is an especially important place for building those relationships. Few jurisdictions bring together sophisticated legal institutions, world-class universities, policymakers, global technology companies, dispute-resolution institutions, and an ambitious innovation ecosystem in such close proximity. For Penn State Dickinson Law and the wider Penn State University, that creates opportunities to connect our strengths in AI, intellectual property, innovation, data, technology policy, and interdisciplinary research with partners confronting many of the same questions from different institutional and regional perspectives. Grateful to the many colleagues and friends who made the week so stimulating, productive, and enjoyable.
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Sydney | IPSANZ & Meetings with UNSW, UTS, FCA, Allens, G+T, 5W and more

A productive week in Australia, anchored by the IPSANZ - The Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. Annual Conference and a series of conversations that I hope will continue to strengthen connections across the region. At IPSANZ, I participated in two sessions on intellectual property, technology, and AI, building on relationships developed through the Hansen IP Institute at Fordham and exchanging perspectives with judges, academics, practitioners, and other leaders in the IP community. Many thanks to IPSANZ President Ian Horak KC and his team for the invite. The conference was also part of a broader week of relationship-building, including opportunities for exchange at Melbourne Law School's Francis Gurry Lecture featuring incoming Master of the Rolls Sir Colin Birss. [Watch my recent Penn State Dickinson Law Profiles in Leadership interview with Lord Justice Birss here: https://lnkd.in/gjUGtJQZ] Australia is grappling with many of the same questions that occupy us at in the U.S. around AI, innovation, competition, and technology governance, but sometimes with different doctrinal, cultural, and institutional starting points. Those comparative perspectives sharpen our own thinking and can feed directly into research and teaching. Just as importantly, sustained international relationships can create opportunities for faculty collaboration, visiting speakers, comparative research, student engagement, and institutional partnerships. They also help ensure that Penn State is not simply observing international conversations about the future of law and technology, but contributing to them. That exchange runs both ways. I returned with new perspectives and ideas, and had the opportunity to share some of the work taking place at Penn State Dickinson Law and across Penn State University with colleagues in Australia. Many thanks to IPSANZ and to the many colleagues who were so generous with their time, ideas, and hospitality. I look forward to continuing these conversations. Emily C. and John E. Hansen IP Institute at Fordham Law School | University of Technology Sydney | UNSW | Macquarie University | Deborah Healey | Weihuan Zhou | Lyria Bennett Moses | Alexandra George | Joseph Ng | May Fong Cheong | Michael Handler | David Yates | Michael Williams | John Lee | Colin Birss | Isabella Alexander | Sarah Tiffen | Andrew Fox SC | Alida Stanley | Joel Barrett | Rita Matulionyte | John Swinson | Isobel Patmore | Sally Davitt | Gillian Woon (云美卿) | Katarina Klaric | Ian Gault | Natalie Harre | Duncan Longstaff | The Hon Dr Annabelle Bennett AC SC FAA FAAL
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PBS | “Meta is on trial – again. Here’s what to know about the case brought by dozens of states”

Hannah Grabenstein's PBS piece about the multistate litigation against Meta over youth safety, privacy, and social media design artfully captures its significance. The case reaches beyond the familiar debate over Section 230 and user-generated content. States are also challenging product design choices, safety practices, and public representations about how young people interact with social media. As I shared with her, litigation of this scale can influence behavior well beyond the courtroom. When design choices, internal safety research, or public statements create substantial legal exposure, lawyers and product teams have reason to scrutinize those decisions much earlier. The broader questions around platform accountability, youth safety, privacy, and product design will remain important regardless of the ultimate outcome of this case. https://lnkd.in/gPCsYmsu Penn State Dickinson Law
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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. View our past episodes here: https://lnkd.in/ga4ezSqm. Few people have had as close a view of the transformation of intellectual property from a specialized legal field into a central part of the global innovation economy. Dr. Gurry’s career has unfolded alongside that transformation, giving him a distinctive perspective on how law and international institutions have had to adapt as technology, markets, and geopolitical influence have shifted. Our conversation begins with his early years in Australia and Cambridge before turning to the digital revolution and the rise of Asia as a major center of innovation. From there, we explore how WIPO responded to changes that often moved faster than traditional forms of international lawmaking could accommodate. A recurring theme is the importance of building institutions that can solve practical problems. We discuss the creation of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, the emergence of the UDRP in response to domain-name disputes, and the Marrakesh Treaty and Accessible Books Consortium as different examples of international cooperation taking shape through both law and implementation. Dr. Gurry also reflects candidly on becoming Director General after an election decided by a single vote and on leading WIPO through a period of significant institutional and geopolitical change. That experience ultimately included the extraordinary challenge of steering an international organization through the COVID-19 pandemic. Underlying the conversation is a broader question: how can international institutions remain relevant when technology, economic power, and political influence are changing simultaneously? It was a privilege to explore that question with someone who has played such a significant role in shaping the modern international intellectual property system. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gXTKWavj 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. This may be Sir Colin’s first interview as incoming Master of the Rolls, offering a rare opportunity to hear directly from him about the experiences that have shaped his approach to judging and leadership, and what we might expect as he prepares to assume one of the most important judicial offices in England and Wales. His path to that role has been anything but conventional. He began by studying metallurgy and materials science at Cambridge and working with computers before building a distinguished career in intellectual property practice and then on the bench. Those experiences have given him a distinctive perspective on how courts should respond to technological change without losing sight of the craft of judging. Sir Colin reflects on why curiosity matters, why judges should seek to understand technology rather than be intimidated by it, and why institutions must be willing to experiment when better ways of working become possible. We also discuss the transition from advocate to judge, what makes advocacy effective from the other side of the bench, the people and experiences that shaped him, and the responsibilities that come with leading a judicial institution. What emerges is a thoughtful view of leadership grounded not in preserving established ways of doing things for their own sake, but in understanding what institutions are there to accomplish and being prepared to improve how they accomplish it. As Sir Colin prepares to become Master of the Rolls, this conversation offers an unusually timely window into the outlook he will bring to that role. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gjUGtJQZ View past episodes of Profiles in Leadership here: https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/faculty/profiles-in-leadership Justin Kulp HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
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Profiles in Leadership | Michael Aguinaldo

Pleased to share the latest episode of the Penn State Dickinson Law Profiles in Leadership series, featuring Michael Aguinaldo, Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission. His career offers a distinctive perspective on what institutional leadership requires when public trust, independence, and effective government all have to be earned at the same time. After nearly two decades in private practice, he moved into public service and went on to serve in the Office of the President, lead the Philippine Commission on Audit, and now head the country’s competition authority. Our conversation explores how those experiences shaped his approach to leadership. He reflects on the importance of listening before acting, exercising judgment without losing sight of institutional principles, and preserving independence in environments where legal, political, and practical pressures often intersect. One story captures that philosophy particularly well. A dispute over a $20 write-off becomes a lesson in proportionality, common sense, and the difference between enforcing rules mechanically and using them to make government work better. We also discuss what it takes to make competition law meaningful in a developing economy, where the success of an agency depends not only on doctrine and enforcement but also on whether ordinary citizens can see how competition affects their daily lives. He spoke about strengthening the Philippine Competition Commission’s capacity, managing political and corruption risks, and building an institution equipped for the challenges ahead. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gmxsRQya View past episodes of Profiles in Leadership here: https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/faculty/profiles-in-leadership Justin Kulp
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