Women In Law Committee

The Women in Law (WIL) Committee aims to promote the advancement of female Asian American attorneys with ties to Silicon Valley. In advancement of this goal, the group organizes and executes monthly programming including networking, mentoring, speaker, and educational events.

For more information on our events or to get involved with the WIL Committee, please contact the WIL Committee co-chairs at womeninlaw@apabasv.com.

CO -CHAIRS

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.

Rosaleen Chou

Intellectual property counselor Rosaleen Chou is a partner in the San Francisco office of Knobbe Martens, where she advises on brand protection and strategy. With clients that include famous brands across a broad array of industries, Fortune 50 and smaller, fast-growth companies alike, she has managed extensive global trademark portfolios across 200+ countries. Notably, Rosaleen spearheads global policing and enforcement programs that protect her clients’ IP rights against infringement and dilution while furthering and safeguarding competitive advantage. This includes multi-country opposition and infringement actions, domain name disputes and UDRP proceedings, TTAB opposition and cancellation proceedings, copyright strategy, customs enforcement, and online marketplace and social media brand protection. Having worked at Facebook as a full-time secondee, Rosaleen managed and developed trademark and copyright portfolios for Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp. She also developed brand guidelines and managed brand licensing of these properties. Rosaleen also serves on the firm’s Diversity Committee and on INTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Committee.

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.

Bhakti Shivarekar

Bhakti Shivarekar is an Assistant General Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, based in Spring, Texas. She is a multidisciplinary commercial attorney with deep expertise in data privacy and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence. In her role, she leads the Service Provider business in North America, partnering with three of the top five telecommunications providers and supporting initiatives that drive significant revenue growth.