Kavita Aggarwal

Kavita Aggarwal is VP, Legal at Coupa Software, Inc., headquartered in San Mateo, CA. At Coupa, Kavita is responsible for product counseling, commercial transactions, employment law, and all things IP. Kavita started her career as a patent attorney, and worked as a patent prosecution and strategy associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Palo Alto before starting her in-house legal career as Patent Counsel at Rambus. Kavita received her JD and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.

Rajy Banerjee

Rajy Banerjee serves as a Corporate Counsel at NetApp, specializing in commercial contracts, including software services, SaaS and cloud hybrid agreements data privacy issues, supporting small, midsize and enterprise transactions and privacy matters. Rajy has accumulated valuable experience through her tenure at renowned companies such as Vodafone, Pinterest, and CaptivateIQ, a tech startup. Rajy is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Subroto Bose

Subroto Bose is Head of IP at Astera Labs, where he manages Astera’s patent and trademark portfolio, domain names, customs enforcement, invention harvesting, and patent strategy. Prior to joining Astera Labs, he was Assistant General Counsel, IP Strategy and Development at Marvell Semiconductor, and Senior Director, Global Patent Strategy and IP Operations at Dolby Laboratories. Subroto’s in-house experience includes global patent and trademark portfolio strategy, European patent prosecution, patent acquisitions, and global IP operations. He also advises on patent issues in licensing transactions, open source issues, and issues related to standard setting organizations and standard essential patents. His prior experience also includes working at several law firms, where he represented both plaintiffs and defendants before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and federal district courts.

Iris Chiu

Iris regularly litigates wage and hour class cases, single-plaintiff actions, and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) matters. She represents employers in disputes involving allegations of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and unfair competition.

Clients seek her practical counseling on human resources issues, including hiring, discipline and termination, leaves of absence, wage and hour issues, employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, restrictive covenants, and employee handbooks. She also develops and delivers training to managers and employees on employment issues, policies, and practices.

Additionally, Iris is a Certified Information Privacy Professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals who has counseled clients on issues relating to state and federal data protection laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act. Clients also value her advice on such matters as surveillance of employees' electronic communications, workplace investigations and searches, and the protection of trade secrets and confidential information.

Cloris Cui

Cloris works as a Senior IP Counsel for Futurewei Technologies, where she handles transactional IP matters, especially standard essential patent licensings. Additionally, she counsels businesses on open source licenses, IP policies in standard setting organizations, and supports IP litigations. She enjoys the interaction of business, technology, and law, and how deals are made by the synergy of the three.

Melanie Frakes

Melanie Frakes is an associate attorney. Her practice areas include civil litigation and employment law. She received her J.D. from Berkeley Law School.

Chris Han

Chris Han works as IP Litigation Counsel at Apple Inc. in Cupertino, focusing primarily on patent disputes. Chris received his JD in 2013 from NYU School of Law, where he served as Co-President of the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society and as Articles Editor for the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. Chris also received a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Yvonne Ho

Yvonne Ho is Senior Counsel at Walmart, where she manages and advises on complex technology transactions and product development related to eCommerce and data management. Her background includes cross-border transactions, corporate and IP affairs, regulatory matters, and policy development. Prior to her legal career she worked in business with entrepreneurs and technology start-ups throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Neal Jagtap

Neal Jagtap is Senior Product Counsel at eBay, where he supports the shopping experience and mobile product teams for the core eBay Marketplaces business.  He advises on marketing, privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory matters on a global basis.  Prior to eBay Neal served as in-house counsel to several e-commerce and enterprise technology companies in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.  Neal began his legal career as a commercial litigator at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.  Between college and law school he served as an officer in the United States Air Force.  Neal earned a BSE from Princeton University and a JD and MPP from the University of Michigan.

Jeffrey Liang

Jeff is a partner in the Intellectual Property group at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton LLP. Jeff combines his extensive engineering background and litigation experience to provide clients with an integrated, strategic approach to IP litigation. He has represented companies in all phases of patent disputes, including pre-suit investigation, negotiations, discovery, depositions, oral hearings, and trials. His practice includes district court litigation, IPR proceedings, and Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission, and he has represented clients in cases involving a wide range of technologies including computer architecture, IC design, cryptography, artificial intelligence, streaming media, networking, and wireless communications.

Lindsey Pho

Lindsey Pho is an associate in her firm’s Intellectual Property and Corporate practice groups. She provides transactional work, including drafting both internal and third-party agreements. She also counsels her clients regarding intellectual property issues, trademarks and copyrights, and employment matters. Lindsey has years of experience in corporate litigation, in both federal and state courts, involving a wide spectrum of matters including patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, wage and hour violations, breach of contract disputes and related tort actions.

Growing up and working in the Silicon Valley has provided Lindsey with a unique opportunity to work with many innovative clients, including those in the High Tech, entertainment, apparel, e-commerce, and food & beverage industries.

She is on the Board of Directors for the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley, the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys, and the Vietnamese American Professional Women of Silicon Valley. When not serving her clients or her community, you can find Lindsey hiking, biking, snowboarding, skiing, or traveling the world – she has been to 30 countries. In April 2016, she became a certified yoga instructor.

Sam Quach

Sam Quach is an Associate Attorney at Hoge Fenton in San Jose, California, where he advises corporate clients on business disputes, privacy compliance, and ADA accessibility. He represents clients in civil court, mediations, and depositions, and collaborates with in-house legal teams to develop strategies that align with business objectives. Sam earned his J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law, where he served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Communications and Entertainment Law Journal.

Jack Shaw

Jack is a Partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP. He focuses on intellectual property and commercial litigation, representing clients in industries including software, mobile app technologies, digital media & entertainment, machine learning, consumer electronics, semiconductors, telecommunications, mobile payment, internet, network, medical, and mechanical engineering. Along with patent litigation, his other IP experience includes copyright/DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), trade dress, and trade secret matters. He has represented U.S. clients as well as clients headquartered in Asia and Europe. Jack’s commercial litigation experience includes unfair competition and breach of contract actions.

Tej Singh

Tej Singh is a counsel at Hogan Lovells US LLP, where he focuses his practice on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. He received his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and his B.A. (computer science & cognitive science) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Vivian Wang

Vivian Wang is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California, where she is the Financial Litigation Coordinator and part of the Affirmative Civil Enforcement unit. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, she spent seven years as a Deputy Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Section of the California Attorney General's office, prosecuting violations of the state's False Advertising and Unfair Competition laws. Prior to that, she was a litigation associate at Berliner Cohen LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, and clerked for Judge Diane Sykes on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Sue Xia

Sue serves as Lead Counsel – Patents and Open Source at Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. In her role, Sue leads the team that manages the company’s patent program and their entire patent portfolio, as well as support open source legal projects.

Joseph Yang

Joe is a partner at PatentEsque Law Group, LLP, specializing in patent/tech transactions & JVs. Previously, he was VP/GC at Cryptography Research, Inc., and Counsel at Skadden (Palo Alto) where he led the IP strategy/transactions practice.  Joe has also been an expert witness, an arbitrator, and managed litigation & corporate IP portfolios.  Joe co-chairs the “Advanced Licensing” & “Advanced Patent Licensing” courses at PLI, teaches "Patent & Technology Licensing" at Stanford, and has taught “Patent Law & Policy” at Boalt. He is profiled in Marquis’ “Who’s Who in American Law,” and as a “World’s Leading IP Strategist” by Intellectual Asset Management magazine.  Joe has a JD from Stanford and a PhD from Caltech.