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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
86 filings
$10.6M 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 spend on filings that named this issue — 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
The 15 most-cited of 49 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 2010
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: coalition-for-21st-century-patent-reform.
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.
110th Congress
Patent Reform Act of 2007
8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2045114th CongressTargeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 632114th CongressSTRONG Patents Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3666116th CongressSTRONGER Patents Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act6 filingsthrough 2011
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act6 filingsthrough 2011
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.
Virgil MillerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Policy Fellow, Rep. Edolphus Towns, Aug06 - Feb07; Prof Staff Mber, Commit on Eng and Com, Feb 07 - Jan 11; Health Policy Advisor, Rep. John D. Dingell, Jan 09 - Jan 11; CoS, Rep. Cedric Richmond, Jan 11 - Mar 19.18 filingsthrough 2025
David RuddPalmetto GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff for Senator Fritz Hollings12 filingsthrough 2011
John WinburnPalmetto Group12 filingsthrough 2011
Ed JenkinsPalmetto GroupCovered position: Former Member of Congress - GA12 filingsthrough 2011
Michael PruckerPalmetto GroupCovered position: Staff to Cong. Neal and Cong. Kennelly10 filingsthrough 2010
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld7 filingsthrough 2016
Michael K KirkMichael KirkCovered position: Deputy Commissioner of Patents4 filingsthrough 2009
Gary GriswoldGary GriswoldCovered position: N/A3 filingsthrough 2011
Mike SolonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Armey, Jun 87-Nov 883 filingsthrough 2008
Steve RossAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Gen Cnsl of US House, 1983-933 filingsthrough 2008
Casey Christine HigginsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Asst to Spkr for Policy and Trade Cnsl, Paul Ryan, Nov 15-Jan 19; Trade Cncl to House Ways & Means, Jan 15-Nov 15; LC to Rep. Paul Ryan, Oct 11-Jan 15; Law Clrk House Budget Comm, Sep 09-May 10.2 filingsthrough 2023
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen Inhofe2 filingsthrough 2015
John SimmonsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: for Rep Walsh, 1991-942 filingsthrough 2011
Roger MurryAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg assist, Rep Tauscher; leg asst, Rep Napolitano2 filingsthrough 2011
Arshi SiddiquiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: pol aide, Rep Clayton, Oct 97-Jan 982 filingsthrough 2011
James DennisPalmetto GroupCovered position: Counsel Sen Robb & Bingaman, IRS Commission2 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 28 of 41 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
