Ms Kanika Radhakrishnan

Chair Professor, Faculty of Law
Manipal University Jaipur

Ms. Radhakrishnan is the Founder and Managing Shareholder of Evergreen Valley Law Group, a full service IP law firm with offices in the Silicon Valley, US and Bangalore, India. She started EVLG in 2004. She co-founded Epiphany IP Solutions in India along with Anand Phene and Vinayanand Singh in 2009.

Ms. Radhakrishnan has extensive experience working as a patent prosecutor, litigator and mediator in the US and India. She is a licensed US Patent Attorney and also registered to practice by the State Bar of California. Her representative clients have included marquee names such as Philips, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Oracle, Adobe and Yahoo and has obtained over 5000 patents for her clients.

In the past, she has worked with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva to design a Patent Agent Training curriculum to train Patent Agents in developing countries.

Ms. Radhakrishnan is the Past Co-Chair of TiE Women Global (www.tiewomen.org) TiE is a non-profit with 55+chapters around the world and its charter is to foster entrepreneurship through mentorship, networking, education, funding and incubation. She has also served on the Governing Board member of TiE Bangalore. She is an Angel Investor and has served as Fund Manager of TiE SoCal Angels Women’s Fund.

She has served on the boards of numerous non-profits in the Bay Area including the South Asian Bar Association-Northern California (SABA-NC.) She was Co- Chair of the Pro Bono Committee of SABA-NC. She also served on the Board of Narika, a non-profit in Oakland, CA that works with survivors of domestic violence.