Masterclass: IP Strategy for Startups
A Funda Virtual Session, presented by Funda sponsor Evergreen Valley Law Group:
Hey everyone! Kicking off Funda's 2026 events with a virtual masterclass built for early-stage founders.
If you're building in the Valley with a team in India—or planning to—your IP strategy has to work across both. Get the sequencing wrong and you can lose rights you didn't know you had. Kanika Radhakrishnan is joining us to cover:
Structuring IP when your engineering team is offshore: invention assignments, foreign filing licenses, and who actually owns what
Patent prosecution basics — what to file, when, and what it costs
Protecting your IP before you fundraise
The common mistakes founders make, and what they cost later
Followed by open Q&A. Bring your specific questions.
About Kanika: Founder and Managing Shareholder of Evergreen Valley Law Group. She founded EVLG in 2004 with offices in Silicon Valley and Bangalore and is an active angel investor. Kanika holds an LLM from Harvard Law, is a licensed US Patent Attorney, and a member of the State Bar of California. EVLG has secured over 5,000 patents for clients across AI, enterprise and consumer software, semiconductors, medical devices, and consumer electronics. She has represented clients such as Philips, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Oracle, Adobe, and Yahoo, as well as deep tech startups that were eventually acquired by Fortune 500 companies, where the patent portfolio was central to the deal.
More: https://www.sanjosepatentattorney.com/
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time: 5:00–6:00pm PDT
Format: Zoom