About Us
Evergreen Valley Law Group (EVLG) works with technology companies with outside funding, IP-dependent business models, and investors who will eventually pick through every patent in the portfolio. EVLG handles patent, trademark, and copyright work at every stage, from a first provisional filing through the freedom-to-operate opinion that clears a product launch before it ships.
Who We Are
EVLG is a full-service intellectual property firm handling patents, trademarks, and copyrights for companies who need more than just a filing service. We're headquartered in Silicon Valley, with a second office in Bangalore, and that dual-office structure isn't a footnote. Many of the tech companies we work with have engineering teams, co-founders, or manufacturing partners in India, and having attorneys who work across time zones and legal systems changes how quickly patent strategy actually gets executed.
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Our clients range from early-stage startups filing their first application to Fortune 500 companies managing large portfolios, alongside individual inventors, universities, and other law firms that bring us specialized patent work. What connects our clients is the same thing: they need attorneys who understand the underlying technology well enough to protect it correctly the first time.
Who We Work With
We built our practice specifically around funded tech companies and startups, and that focus shapes how we work. A pre-seed founder filing a provisional application has different needs than a Series B company building a defensive portfolio ahead of acquisition talks, and we don't run both through the same playbook. Our client base ranges from technical founders, to CTOs managing IP strategy for the first time, to general counsel who need outside patent counsel that moves at startup speed, and this is where we excel.
Meet the Attorney
Kanika Radhakrishnan is a Harvard-trained patent attorney, founder and Managing Shareholder of Evergreen Valley Law Group (EVLG), and an active startup investor. She combines the perspective of an operator who has built and run a global business for two decades with that of an investor who has backed 25+ early-stage deep tech companies across the U.S., India, and Europe. Her clients' portfolios have contributed to more than $1.1B in combined exit value, with intellectual property accounting for 40% to 50% of deal value.
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Kanika works with AI companies on questions the field is still resolving: what is patentable in a model-based product, how do training data provenance and open-weight boundaries shape defensibility, and what a Board needs in order to exercise credible oversight as regulation keeps shifting. She serves as fractional IP counsel and as an IP advisor to Boards and technical committees on AI, data strategy, and governance, and is completing Stanford Law School's course on AI Strategy for Legal Leaders.
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Kanika built EVLG into a global boutique with offices in San Jose and Bangalore, serving semiconductor, photonics, AI infrastructure, robotics, defense, and EV companies. She has overseen 5,000+ patent filings with an 87% grant rate, and advises accelerators, incubators, and early-stage venture funds on IP defensibility. That work holds portfolios to the diligence standard that precedes any financial event, including a fundraise, a valuation, or a merger or acquisition. Prior to founding EVLG, Kanika was a patent litigator at Morrison & Foerster.
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Kanika serves on the Board of Directors and Governance Committee of Alpha Public Schools in San Jose, and has previously served as Co-Chair of TiE Women Global and board member of TiE Bangalore, Narika, and SABA Northern California.
Why Funded Startups Work With Us
We think like investors, not just attorneys. Because Kanika actively evaluates and funds startups, our team understands what makes a patent portfolio actually valuable to a future investor or acquirer, not just technically defensible.
We operate across San Jose and Bangalore as one team. If your engineering work spans both regions, you're not coordinating between a U.S. firm and a separate Indian associate we handle it directly.
We cover the full IP picture. Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are handled under one roof, so your brand and your technology aren't managed by two disconnected law firms working from two different understandings of your business.
