Kimberly J Schenk

“Kimberley Schenk is an industry go-to for expert advice and testimony, and her clients benefit from her stellar career and experience. She combines legal knowledge with tremendous business savvy to help clients to grow and develop in a way that few other individuals are capable of.”

Kimberly J Schenk is a vice president in the IP practice at Charles River Associates. She has nearly 20 years’ experience evaluating damages in IP matters. She has provided expert witness testimony in patent, trade secret, trademark and copyright litigation engagements across a variety of industries, including software, medical devices, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Her experience includes quantifying damages in the form of lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion and unjust enrichment. She has also evaluated commercial success as a secondary consideration of non-obviousness and irreparable harm in the context of preliminary injunctions. Ms Schenk has testified as an expert witness in deposition and at trial in cases pending in Federal and State Court.

In addition to her experience in IP matters, Ms Schenk has performed damages assessments for a variety of other types of business disputes, including breach of contract litigation and general commercial disputes. She has been involved in valuations of patents and patent portfolios, trademarks, non-competition agreements and other intangible assets. She has also managed several large business valuation projects in the context of estate tax and transfer pricing disputes.

Ms Schenk earned two BSc’s in finance and economics from the Smeal College of Business Administration at Pennsylvania State University, with honours in economics, and holds an MA in forensic accounting from Florida Atlantic University. She is a certified public accountant and is certified in financial forensics.