SSRN Patent Professor Rankings

Which patent law professors had the most SSRN downloads in the past year? While there are certainly many problems with using SSRN downloads for rankings, it can still be an informative metric, so I am going to again import a useful series from TaxProf Blog into the IP setting. SSRN's list (login required) was last updated on 6/6/11, and here's a ranking by "Total New Downloads," which tracks "Total downloads for the last 365 days for all the author's papers in the SSRN eLibrary." Inclusion on this list is based on my subjective assessment of whether the person could count as a "patent professor" or "patent scholar" (based on a quick look at his or her SSRN page); if you think I missed someone, please let me know!

1. Mark Lemley (Stanford)
2. Thomas Field (New Hampshire)
3. Ted Sichelman (UCSD)
4. Peter Menell (Berkeley)
5. Robert Merges (Berkeley)
6. Lee Petherbridge (Loyola)
7. Gregory Mandel (Temple)
8. Dennis Crouch (Missouri)
9. Scott Hemphill (Columbia)
10. Dan Burk (Irvine)
11. Rochelle Dreyfuss (NYU)
12. Jason Rantanen (Iowa)
13. Jay Kesan (Illinois)
14. Shamnad Basheer (West Bengal National University)
15. James Bessen (Research on Innovation)
16. Gideon Parchomovsky (Penn)
17. Ralph Clifford (U Mass Dartmouth)
18. Jonathan Masur (Chicago)
19. Ronald Mann (Columbia)
20. Christopher Cotropia (Richmond)

A rather male list, isn't it? At least Professor Dreyfuss is on there!

If you think this list is useful, and you would like to see it (a) updated in the future, (b) extended beyond the top 20, or (c) based on a different SSRN metric (like total downloads or downloads per paper), let me know in the comments! Maybe "new downloads per paper" would be a decent way to identify younger scholars (and possibly more women?), since older professors would get weighed down by having lots of older papers that are no longer receiving many downloads in the denominator?