Chicago Office
300 N. LaSalle Street Suite 4000
Chicago,
Illinois
60654
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Professional Experience
John E. Conour practices in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Group. He litigates intellectual property disputes in federal court and before the trademark trial and appeal board and procures chemical, life sciences, design and mechanical patents on behalf of a wide variety of clients. John’s practice further includes counseling and preparation of invalidity, patentability and non-infringement opinions, and intellectual property licensing. Some of John’s recent litigation and enforcement experience includes:
- Defense of a U.S. manufacturing company against a patent infringement suit brought by a non-practicing entity, which resulted in an early favorable settlement for the client.
- Enforcement of a manufacturer’s color trademark against infringement by a wholesale tool importer.
Dr. Conour’s technical expertise includes molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, biosensor design, bioinformatics, microbiology, animal models, microfluidics, and surface chemistries.
Education and Honors
- Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., 2011)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D., 2005)
U.S.D.A National Needs Predoctoral Fellow in Functional Genomics. Phi Kappa Phi, Elected 2004. Gamma Sigma Delta, Elected 2000.
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S., 1998)
Degree: Molecular and Integrative Physiology. DeBoer Undergraduate Research Award in Microbiology, June 1996.
Bar Admissions
Illinois,
2011
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2006
Selected Presentations/Publications
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Co-author, Engineering Redox-Sensitive Linkers for Genetically Encoded FRET-Based Biosensors, Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2008; 233(2):238-248.
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Co-author, Regiospecific control of protein expression in cells cultured on two-component counter gradients of extracellular matrix proteins, Langmuir 2005; 21:3061-3068.
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J. E. Conour, et al. A combined in vitro/bioinformatic investigation of redox regulatory mechanisms governing cell cycle progression, Physiol Genomics 2004; 18:196-205.
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J. E. Conour, et al. Acidomucin goblet cell expansion induced by parenteral nutrition in the small intestine of piglets, Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2002; 283:1185-1196.
Presentations
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iBIO Institute Career Links, Science Panel Member, iBIO Index, March 2009, Chicago, IL.
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S. R. Chowdhury, J. E. Conour, H. R. Gaskins. Polarized provision of cysteine affects glutathione biosynthesis without impacting gene expression pathways responsive to oxidative stress in intestinal epithelial cells. Annual Meeting, Federation of American Scientists of Experimental Biology, Apr. 2007, Washington, DC.
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S. R. Chowdhury, J. E. Conour, G. M. Nava, H. R. Gaskins. Polarized provision of cysteine affects redox homeostasis in intestinal Caco2-BBE cells. Annual Meeting, Federation of American Scientists of Experimental Biology, April 2006, San Francisco, CA.
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J. E. Conour, et al. Real-Time monitoring of the intracellular redox environment using a novel fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based redox biosensor. Annual Meeting, Federation of American Scientists of Experimental Biology, April 2005, San Diego, CA.
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J. E. Conour, et al. Identification and characterization of redox-regulated cell cycle proteins. Annual Meeting, American Society for Cell Biology, December 2003, San Francisco, CA.
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J.R. Choban, R. C. Gunawan, J. E. Conour, L. A. Rund, H. R. Gaskins, L. B. Schook, J. F. Zachary, D. E. Leckband, P. J. A. Kenis. Microfluidic platforms for intestinal stem cell studies. Annual Meeting, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, November 2003, San Francisco, CA.
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J. E. Conour, et al. In vitro simulation of the intestinal epithelial crypt microenvironment using microfluidic platforms. International Conference on Systems Biology, November 2003, St. Louis, MO.
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R. C. Gunawan, E. R. Choban, J. E. Conour, L. A. Rund, J. F. Zachary, H. R. Gaskins, P. J. A. Kenis, D. E. Leckband, L. B. Schook. Modeling the intestinal epithelial crypt microenvironment using microfluidic platforms. Cell and Molecular Biology & Molecular Biophysics Research Symposium, October 2003, Champaign, IL.
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J. E. Conour, et al. In silico identification of redox-regulated cell cycle proteins. Annual Meeting, American Society for Cell Biology, December 2002, San Francisco, CA.
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J. E. Conour, et al. Total parenteral nutrition induces sulfomucin goblet cell metaplasia in the small intestine of a neonatal piglet model. Annual Meeting, Federation of American Scientists of Experimental Biology, April 2001, Orlando, FL.
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