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.
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.
