29 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Oct 18, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$570K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$570K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
21 filings
$570K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 778113th CongressNo Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 647113th CongressNo Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act7 filingsthrough 2014
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: bacardi-u-s-a-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act
5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 603112th CongressA bill to modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1103111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2122111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1234111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1306110th CongressTo modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 749110th CongressA bill to modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3208111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
