Charles Goyer, a registered patent agent in Canada and the United States has practiced exclusively in the biotechnology intellectual property field since 1992. He joined Goudreau Gage Dubuc in 1996.
Charles Goyer became one of Québec’s first “outside” biotech patent counsel with a Ph.D. He has developed a successful and long term business relationship with a number of biotech clients. Having a molecular biology background comprising bacterial and yeast genetics studies, his Patent Agent practice is biased towards the genetic side of biotechnology.
Since the beginning of his intellectual property career, Charles Goyer has been protecting the assets of his clients as if they were his own. He guides clients in crafting and developping effective and tailored protection strategies. Charles Goyer lives for mandates having complex issues! He has also built a network of top United States and foreign patent attorneys which enhances the quality, efficiency and business sense of his practice. Charles Goyer is also intensely involved in a number of committees for BioQuébec and Montréal InVivo.
| Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) | ||
| 1997 - | Member of the Joint Liaison Committee - Biotechnology Patenting | |
| 1996 - | Member of Biotechnology Legislation Committee | |
| BioQuébec | ||
| United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) | ||
| 2009- | Board Member of Montréal InVivo | |
| "Top reasons to file patent applications in Canada", Newsletter GGData, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 2006 | ||
| Carpentier, M., and Goyer, C., "Bill C-29 Brings Relief to Numerous Patent Application Owners", Transcript Vol. 3 (2), 2005 | ||
| "Higher Life Forms Denied Patent Protection in Canada", Transcript Vol. 2 (3), 2003 | ||
| "Supreme Court’s rulings on inventorship sound prediction and patentability of higher life forms”, Newsletter GGData, Vol. 2, No. 5, December 2002 | ||
| Goyer, C., Altmann M., Lee H.S., A. Blanc, H. Trachsel and N. Sonenberg. "TIF4631 and TIF4632: Two Yeast Genes Encoding the High Molecular Weight Subunits of the Cap Binding Protein Complex (elF-4F) Contain an RRM-like Sequence and Carry Out an Essential Function", Mol. Cell. Biol., 13: 4860-4874, 1993 | ||
| "Characterization of Yeast Cap Binding Proteins", McGill University, Doctoral thesis, 1993 | ||
| Lejbkowicz, F., Goyer, C., Darveau, A., Néron, S., Lemieux, R., and Sonenberg, N., "A fraction of the mRNA 5' Cap-binding Protein, Eukaryotic Initiation-Factor 4E, Localizes to the Nucleus", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 89: 9612-9616, 1992 | ||
| Lanker, S., Mueller, P.P., Altmann, M., Goyer, C., Sonenberg, N., and Trachsel, H., "Interactions of the elF-4F Subunits in the Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisia", J. Biol. Chem. 267: 21167-21171, 1992 | ||
| Goyer, C., Lee, H.S., Malo, D., and Sonenberg, N., "Isolation of a Yeast Gene Encoding a Protein Homologous to the Human Tat-binding Protein TBP-1", DNA and Cell Biol. 11: 579-586, 1992 | ||
| Blanc, A., Goyer, C., and Sonenberg, N., "The Coat Protein of the Yeast Double-stranded RNA Virus L-A Attaches Covalently to the Cap Structure of Eukaryotic mRNA", Mol. Cell. Biol. 12: 3390-3398, 1992 | ||
| Roy, S., Goyer, C., and Parkin, N.T., "La Protéine trans-activatrice Tat de HIV-1: cible potentielle pour les agents antiviraux", Médecine Sci. 5: 779-780, 1989 | ||
| Darzynkiewicz, E., Stepinski, J., Ekiel, I, Goyer, C., Sonenberg, N., Temeriusz, A., Jin, Y., Sijuwade, T., Haber, D., and Tahara, S., "Inhibition of Eukaryotic Translation by Nucleoside 5'-monophosphate Analogues of mRNA 5'-cap: Changes in N7 Substituent Affect Analogue Activity", Biochem. 28: 4771-4778, 1989 | ||
| Goyer, C., Altmann, M., Trachsel, H., and Sonenberg, N., "Identification and Characterization of Cap-binding Protein from Yeast", J. Biol. Chem. 264: 7603-7610, 1989 | ||
| Sasarman, A., Nepveu, A., Echelard, Y., Dymetryszyn, J., Drolet, M., and Goyer, C., "Molecular Cloning and Sequencing of the hemD gene of Escherichia Coli K-12 and Preliminary Data on the URO Operon", J. Bacteriol. 169: 4257-4262, 1987 | ||
| "Clonage Moléculaire du gène hemD Gene d'E.Coli K12", Université de Montreal, Master's thesis, 1986 | ||
| "Brevets 101", part of Course MCB3071 «Profession Microbiologiste», 2005 | ||
| "Pas de brevet sans gène", Préval Symposium, Université de Montréal, March 2002 | ||
| "De la découverte au brevet: acte 1", Montréal, September2000 | ||
| "Stratégies de gestion d’un portefeuille de propriété intellectuelle", Musée du Québec, Quebec City, June 2000 | ||
| "General presentation on Intellectual Property", BioAtlantech, Workshop on Financing and Research Via Industrial Partners, University of Moncton, March 1999 | ||
| "Canadian Pharmaceutical Patents: Where to Find Them? How to Find Them? How to Understand Them?", Medical Information Group, Airport Hilton, Dorval, June 1998 | ||
| "Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir... sur les brevets!", Université de Montreal, Pharmacology Department, March 1998 | ||
| "Biotech for Dummies", Montreal sector of Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Intercontinental Hotel, Montreal, June 1997 | ||
| "Issues Specific to Biotechnology Patents", Canadian Health Care Licensing Association Fall Meeting, Biotechnological Research Institute, Montreal, September 1996 | ||
| Various scientific conferences and seminars not listed | ||
| "Patenting and Licensing Biotechnology Conference", Toronto Biotech Institute and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, November 1998 | ||
| "Patents: An intensive practical course", McGill Centre for Continuing Education and Patent and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, 1994 | ||
| "ATCC's Biotechnology Patent Conference", Arlington, Virginia, 1994 | ||
| "Yeast Genetics Course", Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, New York, 1987 | ||
| Ph.D., Biochemistry, McGill University, 1993 | ||
| M.Sc., Microbiology and Immunology, Université de Montreal, 1986 | ||
| B.Sc., Biology, Université de Montreal, 1982 | ||
| Post-doctoral scholarship for "Human Frontier Scholarship" (Strasbourg, France), Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Supervisor: Dr. Gerald R. Fink, June 1992 (Declined by CG) | ||
| Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec (F.R.S.Q), Postdoctoral Scholarship, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Supervisor: Gerald R. Fink, Ph.D., June 1992 (Declined by CG) | ||
| McGill University Faculty of Medicine Internal Scholarship, Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Supervisor: Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D., July 1991 - June 1992 | ||
| Montreal Cancer Research Society, Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Supervisor: Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D., July 1986 - June 1991 | ||
| FCAR (Québec), M.Sc. Studentship, department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Supervisor: Alexandre Sasarman, Ph.D., September 1982 - August 1984 | ||
| January 1992 - April 1992, January 1991 - April 1991 and January 1989 - April 1989: Lab instructor for a second-year course in Biochemistry, "Molecular Biology Laboratories", McGill University, Supervisor: Dr. Philippe Gros | ||
| January 1991 - April 1991: Lab instructor for a third-year course in Biochemistry, McGill University; supervising a student during a 240 hour laboratory internship | ||
| July 1990 - August 1990: Research associate, Viral Institute, Rome, Italy, "Analysis of Protein Synthesis in Hepatitis A Virus and Poliovirus by Molecular Approaches", Supervisor: Dr. Raul Perez Bercoff | ||
| October 1988 - November 1988: Lab instructor as part of a third-year course in Biochemistry, McGill University; supervising two laboratory research student interns | ||
| December 1984 - May 1985: Research Assistant, Microbiology Department, Université Laval, "Characterization of Complex Transposable Elements Comprising a New Betalactamase Gene", Supervisor: Dr. R.C. Levesque | ||
| January 1984 - April 1984: Lab intructor as part of a third-year course in Microbiology and Immunology, Bacterial physiology, Université de Montreal, Supervisor: Dr. Gabriel Drapeau | ||
| January 1983 - April 1983: Lab instructor as part of a second-year course in Microbiology and Immunology, "General Bacteriology", Université de Montreal, Supervisor: Dr. Alexandre Sasarman | ||