Legal Commentary

A few weeks ago, I posted a paper to the SSRN website, Ordinary Creativity in Patent Law.  This morning, I had a few extra moments to catch up to read recent articles and so I ran the word "Patent" through SSRN's search engine.  When I re-ordered them by date to find the most recent ones, I discovered that there were only fourteen results for 2010.  

This seems low to me--my own paper was not among the results and neither was another paper by a colleague that had been posted in February 2010 (both have the word "Patent" in the title).  When I emailed SSRN, I was told their search engine only pulls a certain amount of submissions with a specific keyword at a time.  

I had assumed that SSRN's search results were comprehensive --apparently not and it depends on the search term.  Well, now I know.