Ms. Kanika Radhakrishnan
The firm owes its success in large measure to the dynamic leadership of its President and Managing Attorney, Ms. Kanika Radhakrishnan. Kanika is a registered Patent Attorney in the US and is a member of the State Bar of California. Ms. Radhakrishnan received her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degrees from the University of Delhi in India. She holds graduate degrees from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts specializing in Intellectual Property and the University of Warwick in England, specializing in Law in Development with an emphasis on offshore development and outsourcing. She has successfully completed an internship program at the United Nations office of Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. Kanika is admitted to the State Bar of California and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She is also admitted to practice in India. She is fluent in Tamil, Hindi and German. Ms. Radhakrishnan has worked at several premier law firms in the Bay area specializing in Intellectual Property including Morrison and Foerster LLP, Oppenheimer, Wolff and Donnelly, and D'Alessandro and Ritchie LLP as a patent litigator and patent prosecutor. She is the founder and managing attorney of Evergreen Valley Law Group P.C., a full-service Intellectual Property law firm with offices in San Jose, CA and Bangalore, India that specialize in Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights. The firm focuses on several technological areas including, complex software systems and electronic circuits. She is currently engaged in a project with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which is geared towards designing a training curriculum for patent agents in developing countries. Ms. Radhakrishnan is a frequent speaker on IP-related issues in the Bay area and abroad. She has been invited to speak on IP-related issues by IP Society of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA.) More recently, she was invited to speak at CIP-Forum in Goteborg, Sweden on recent US court decisions that have had major business implications. Ms. Radhakrishnan has also been actively involved in pro bono activities. During August-September 2005, she was invited by the Indian Cabinet Minister for Health, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss to visit the Indian Council of Medical Research and its various Centers in Chennai, Pondicherry, Mumbai and Pune, and to conduct seminars on IP-related issues and propose an IP strategy for ICMR.
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