Our Team: Charesse L. Evans
Charesse L. Evans, Managing Director of PCT Capital LLC, brings over a decade of wide-ranging experience within the patent and intellectual property domain.
Prior to joining PCT, Ms. Evans was a Technology Management Advisor at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company, where she advised various Department of Defense R&D entities on matters related to managing their IP/patent portfolios, and on creating marketing programs and materials around targeted technologies that were available for sale or license.
Prior to SAIC, Ms. Evans was a patent analytics and IP advisor with the consulting arm of Computer Patent Annuities N.A., where she Researched and analyzed client intellectual property portfolios to develop strategic and tactical recommendations for IP portfolio management utilizing advanced data collection and analysis tools.
She is also a former US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Examiner where for over four years she examined patent innovations within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology domains.
Ms. Evans prior experience also includes expertise in licensing and commercialization at the University of Chicago Office of Technology and Intellectual Property where she helped university-affiliated inventors evaluate, protect and market their disclosed inventions.
Ms. Evans has conducted numerous workshops and other training programs related to intellectual property protection, establishing intellectual property management programs and on incorporating parallel intellectual property operations within organizations.
Ms. Evans received a B.S. in Biology from Tuskegee University, a J.D. from Hamline University School of Law, and a MBA from The University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Business. She is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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