predecessor birth_place office birth_date term_start article_title name nominator alma_mater
daniel friedman boston , massachusetts , u.s. judge the federal circuit of the united states court of appeals for 13 january 1935 april 6 , 1990 alan david lourie
 alan lourie george h. w. bush harvard pennsylvania temple university university university of wisconsin , madison university of
alan david lourie

alan david lourie -lrb- born 1935 -rrb- is a united states federal judge .
born in boston , massachusetts , lourie received an a.b. from harvard college in 1956 , an m.s. from the university of wisconsin in 1958 , a ph.d. from the university of pennsylvania in 1965 , and a j.d. from temple university in 1970 .
he was a chemist for monsanto corporation from 1957 to 1959 , and then chemist and patent agent for wyeth labs in radnor , pennsylvania from 1959 to 1964 .
he was in-house counsel , to smithkline beecham corporation from 1964 to 1990 .
on january 24 , 1990 , lourie was nominated by president george h.w. bush to a seat on the united states court of appeals for the federal circuit vacated by daniel mortimer friedman .
lourie was confirmed by the united states senate on april 5 , 1990 , and received his commission on april 6 , 1990 .
he has been described as having a `` pro-patent outlook '' in the book `` innovation and its discontents '' by harvard business school professor josh lerner and by brandeis economics professor adam b. jaffe .
