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.
He is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on IP and competition policy trends and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps stakeholders understand the world around them. He consults internationally on various IP and antitrust issues.
He has taught at 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, Peking University School of Transnational Law, and other institutions worldwide.
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 and on the Executive Committee of the US IP Alliance. In 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. He serves on the Members Consultative Group of the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics.” 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 a consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.
He is under contract with Oxford University Press for a new book titled Infringement in Intellectual Property Law and is co-editor of Inclusive Innovation, Big Data, And Artificial Intelligence. His publications feature, or are forthcoming, in leading flagship and specialty law reviews, including the Florida Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the Stanford Technology Law Review, and the Berkley Technology Law Journal. Thomson Reuters (West) selected three of his articles as the best IP articles of the year in 2018, 2021, and 2022.
He has also contributed to practitioner-focused publications for the American Bar Association, Law360, IPWatchdog, IP Watch, and IP Magazine. In addition, legal publications, specialty blogs such as Patently-O, and mainstream media sources such as Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, the Capitol Forum, Slate, The Hill, The Daily Journal, RealClearPolicy, USA Today, and Sueddeutsche Dossier featured his views on current legal developments. In addition, he serves as a peer reviewer for the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Carolina Academic Press, Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.
Teaching
Teaching and research interests include all areas of intellectual property law, antitrust law, artificial intelligence and the law, and civil procedure.
Directorship
Penn State Dickinson Law
Daryl Lim has served as the Founding Director of Penn State Dickinson Law’s IP and Innovation Initiative since 2022.
His signature event is the Penn State Forum on Capitol Hill. The Forum provides an opportunity for leaders from across the three branches of the U.S. federal government to engage stakeholders on issues of central importance to the Nation’s security and competitiveness, inclusive innovation, drug pricing and environmental sustainability, and stakeholder collaboration as they relate to intellectual property and innovation law and policy. Its closed-door, off-the-record, invitation-only format allows stakeholders to frankly exchange ideas in a way that is normally not possible.
Invitees are a balanced representation of experts and stakeholders with diverse affiliations and viewpoints. Members of Congress and their staff participated over the two days. The Forum consists of roundtables, each covering one topic area. For each topic area, there will be brief remarks presented by several principal discussants who are subject matter experts from academia, government, industry, practice, or civil society, followed by a discussion by all participants. The purpose is not to stake out positions but to examine the current situation and what improvements might be possible now or in the future. This format highlights what is known, moves the debate beyond the rhetoric at typical conferences and seeks solutions to systemic challenges.
UIC Law
Daryl Lim headed the IP program at UIC Law from 2015 to 2022.
The IP program at UIC Law remains one of the most respected in the country, ranked by U.S. News & World Report since the rankings began, and receiving the highest rating of “A+” from preLaw Magazine in 2021 for the 5th consecutive year. He regularly presents at conferences to judges, government officials, and attorneys. He has been providing antitrust advice as an expert consultant since 2015.
Since 2017, Professor Lim has convened a multi-departmental team to organize the Center’s signature event – its Annual IP Law Conference, now in its 65th year. Redesigning it with concurrent sessions and lively discussion-based panels, the team has doubled the audience and tripled the conference faculty with an inclusive, broad-based representation from government, practice, corporations, non-profits, and academia across the U.S. and abroad.
He also introduced the IP Leaders’ Roundtable, bringing together thought leaders of different persuasions to devise practical solutions to contemporary challenges in the IP world. Other programs he introduced include the IP Executive Program, an MBA-style program for practitioners, “Classes without Quizzes,” an annual lecture series featuring distinguished former faculty members or alumni, and the most comprehensive update of the IP curriculum in 70 years. He has also brought global conferences organized by IP organizations such as AIPLA and AIPPI to the Law School.
As Center Director, he works with a wide range of stakeholders from government, academia, practice, industry, nonprofits, and various student groups within the school. In addition to organizing key events such as the annual IP conference (ipconference.jmls.uic.edu), he has helped transform the Law School into a venue where newsmakers from across the country and around the world regularly speak and interact with stakeholders in the IP, technology, and privacy world, including students. He oversees several postgraduate Masters programs in IP as well as in privacy and technology law, all aspects of alumni and partner outreach, and fundraising for the Center.
Scholarship and Awards
Penn State Dickinson Law
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 and on the Executive Committee of the US IP Alliance. In 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. He serves on the Members Consultative Group of the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics.” 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.
He is under contract with Oxford University Press for a new book titled Infringement in Intellectual Property Law. His publications feature in leading flagship and specialty law reviews. Thomson Reuters (West) selected three of his articles as the best IP articles of the year in 2018, 2021, and 2022. He has also contributed to practitioner-focused publications for the American Bar Association, Law360, IPWatchdog, IP Watch, and IP Magazine. In addition, legal publications, specialty blogs such as Patently-O, and mainstream media sources such as Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Slate, The Hill, The Daily Journal, RealClearPolicy, and USA Today featured his views on current legal developments. In addition, he serves as a peer reviewer for the Columbia Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Carolina Academic Press, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.
UIC Law
The Provost appointed him to serve on the University’s Promotion and Tenure Committee in 2020, one of nine faculty university-wide. He was also selected to participate in the Faculty-Administrator Leadership Program from 2020 – 2022. He received the Thomas Edison Fellowship award from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law in 2019 and the Microsoft Professorial Fellowship from Fordham University School of Law in 2018.
Professor Lim is an award-winning author and is considered a leader in the fields of patent and antitrust law. His work has or will appear in Florida Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review Online, Minnesota Law Review Headnotes, University of Illinois Law Review Online, Stanford Technology Law Review, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, and Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, and in peer-reviewed books and journals in Europe and Asia, including those published by Cambridge University Press and the European IP Law Review.
His work on post-sale licensing restraints was validated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Impression Products v. Lexmark International. In his interview with Forbes, he correctly predicted that the Court would overturn decades-old precedents created by the appeals court. His book, Patent Misuse and Antitrust: Empirical, Doctrinal and Policy Perspectives, has been praised among patent and antitrust experts internationally. It has also been cited to the U.S. Supreme Court by lawyers for both sides in their briefs in Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc., a case concerning post-expiration patent royalty payments. His work has been cited in several reports, including those by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the Canadian government.
His article on judicial dissents in patent law was judged to be among the best law review articles in IP for 2017 and was selected for publication in the Intellectual Property Law Review, an anthology published annually by Thomson Reuters (West). His work on how behavioral economics can be applied to the antitrust-patent intersection was nominated for the 2018 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards in the IP category. Shortlisted articles are assessed following an international peer-reviewed evaluation by world-renowned antitrust enforcers, counsels, and academics. He won the Grand Prize in an international essay writing competition organized by the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) in 2009. He has also been nominated for several other awards, including the National Law Journal IP Trailblazers, and the Top 10 Antitrust / Competition Law Academics under 40.
In addition, he has contributed to practitioner-focused publications for the American Bar Association, IPWatchdog, IP Watch, and IP Magazine. Legal publications, specialty blogs such as Patently-O, as well as mainstream media sources such as Forbes, Slate, The Daily Journal, RealClearPolicy, and USA Today featured his views on current IP developments.
He has been awarded John Marshall’s faculty scholarship award twice, in 2014 and 2018.
Advisory Positions
Professor Lim serves on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute and Academic Society for Competition Law. He is also a peer reviewer for the Max Planck Institute’s International Review of IP and Competition Law (IIC), one of about thirty reviewers worldwide in recognition of his “knowledge and skill in the field,” the Yale Law Journal, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Hong Kong University Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Cambridge University Press. He is also an external examiner for National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and served as a visiting associate professor in 2017. Professor Lim also serves with Stanford University’s Alumni Interview Program to interview candidates seeking undergraduate admission to Stanford University.
Employment History and Education
Professor Lim was the Inaugural Microsoft Teaching and Research Fellow at Fordham University School of Law. He interned with former Chief Judge Randall R. Rader at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and with former Chairman William E. Kovacic at the Federal Trade Commission.
Professor Lim has graduate law degrees from Stanford University and the National University of Singapore (NUS). At Stanford Law School, he received the Franklin Family Fellowship and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research Grant. He also has an undergraduate degree in law from NUS, and a degree in economics and management from the University of London (London School of Economics).
Professor Lim was an associate at Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore’s leading IP practice and largest law firm. He worked on litigation and arbitration matters as well as advised clients on IP and technology issues. After leaving practice, he was a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for IP and Competition Law in Munich, Germany and the Queen Mary IP Research Institute in London, UK.