Daryl Lim

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He also serves as associate dean for research and innovation and founding director of the Intellectual Property (IP) and Innovative Initiative. At the university level, he is an Institute of Computational and Data Sciences co-hire 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 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.

Professor Lim’s publications feature in leading flagship and specialty law reviews. In addition, he serves as a peer reviewer for the Yale Law Journal, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), the National Academy of Inventors, Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Carolina Academic Press, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. He recently signed a book deal with Oxford University Press for a new book titled Infringement in Intellectual Property Law. In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement.

Select Publications by Professor Lim

• “Infringement in Intellectual Property Law,” Oxford University Press (Forthcoming, 2024)
• “Confusion, Simplified,” 37 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 867 (2022)
• “AI, Equity, and the IP Gap,” 75 SMU Law Review 815 (2022)
• “Saving Substantial Similarity,” 73 Florida Law Review 51 (2021)

Education

• J.S.M, Stanford Law School
• L.L.M., L.L.B. National University of Singapore
• BSc. Econs. & Mgt., University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Research Interests

• IP law, antitrust law, artificial intelligence, data security and privacy, the architecture of innovation