Education

Progessional Affiliations

Continuing Education

Publications

Conferences & Seminars

Scholarships

Scientific Appointments

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Areas of Practice:

Charles Goyer has been a member of Goudreau Gage Dubuc since 1996 and has been practicing in the intellectual property field since 1992. He is a partner since 2003 and is now head of the biotechnology department. He was appointed senior partner on january 1, 2007.

• Patents (biotechnological, pharmaceutical, genetics, bio/agriculture-food industry  and proteomic)

Education:

Ph.D., Biochemistry Department, McGill University, 1993

M.Sc., Microbiology and Immunology Department, Université de Montreal, 1986

B.Sc., Biology Department, Université de Montreal, 1982

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Professional Affiliations:

Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)

1997 -    Member of the Joint Liaison Committee - Biotechnology Patenting

1996 -    Member of Biotechnology Legislation Committee

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Continuing Education :

"Patenting and Licensing Biotechnology Conference", Toronto Biotech Institute and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Novembre 1998

"Patents: An intensive practical course", McGill Centre for Continuing Education and Patent and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, 1994

TCC's Biotechnology Patent Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 1994

Yeast Genetics Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, New York, 1987

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Publications:

"Top reasons to file patent applications in Canada", Newsletter GGData, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 2006

"Bill C-29 Brings Relief to Numerous Patent Application Owners", Carpentier, M., and Goyer, C., 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

Goyer, C., 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., AIsolation 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

Goyer, C., Clonage Moléculaire du Gène hemD Gene d'E.Coli K12", Université de Montreal, Master's thesis, 1986

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Conferences and Seminars:

"De la découverte au brevet: acte 1", Montreal, September 2000

"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

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Scholarships :

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, Supervisor: Gerald R. Fink, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. (June 1992) (Declined by CG)

McGill University Faculty of Medicine Internal Scholarship, Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship. Supervisor: Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal (July 1991 - June 1992)

Montreal Cancer Research Society, Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship. Supervisor: Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal (July 1986 - June 1991)

FCAR (Québec), M.Sc. Studentship, Supervisor: Alexandre Sasarman, Ph.D., department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, Montreal (September 1982 - August 1984)

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Scientific Appointments :

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