Raji Nagarkar is an associate in the firm’s Business and Tax group.  Her practice is concentrated in the areas of intellectual property law and technology based transactions and includes international business transactions.

Ms. Nagarkar began her practice in California in 2000 as a corporate and securities transactional attorney and thereafter expanded her expertise in intellectual property law through a Masters program at Santa Clara University specializing in intellectual property law (IP/LLM).  Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Nagarkar worked on the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program at Cisco Systems.

Before coming to the United States , Ms. Nagarkar worked as an Associate Attorney in India specializing in Appellate practice representing corporate clients in breach of contract and related business torts matters.

Professional Activities

Ms. Nagarkar is actively involved with The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) and the TiE Women’s Forum.  She is also actively involved with the Bay Area chapter of Women in Licensing (WILBA), which is a subchapter of the worldwide organization, The Licensing Executive Society (LES).

Admissions

Ms. Nagarkar is admitted to practice law in India , California and before the U.S. District Court – Northern District of California.  She is also fluent in Hindi and Kannada.

Representative experience:

• Software and other technology license agreements
  
  
• Joint venture and strategic alliance relationships
  
  
• Software development agreements
  
  
• Joint development agreements for biotechnology and medical devices companies
  
  
• Distribution agreements
  
  
• Manufacturing and supply agreements
  
  
• OEM and value-added reseller agreements
  
  
• End-user licenses and other forms
  
  
• Internet and multimedia license and content agreements
  
  
• Semiconductor manufacturing, supply and licensing agreements
  
  
• Hosting, website development and consulting services agreements
  
  
• Maintenance and support agreements
  
  
• Confidentiality agreements
  
  
• Other commercial agreements
  
  
• Trademark prosecution
  
  
• Privacy policies
  
  
• Trademark usage policies